About Marianne Boruch

Marianne Boruch's six books of poetry include Poems: New and Selected (Oberlin, 2004) and Grace, Fallen from, forthcoming from Wesleyan in 2008. She is also the author of two collections of essays about poetry, most recently In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005). She teaches at Purdue University.

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Lower floor. And it’s all about
standing there at a bus stop with maybe
my fidgety brother, or alone, years

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