Field Notes from Exile
Dispatches, drawings, and field notes from a poet in exile. By Oliver Baez Bendorf.
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Dispatch 037: How to Love a Place Without Naming It (opens the original)
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Dispatch 036: The Material Altar (opens the original)
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Dispatch 035: Two Ways of Holding Light (opens the original)
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Dispatch 034: Loose Stones (opens the original)
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Dispatch 033: The Balsa Wood Canoe (opens the original)
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