I RECENTLY USED Stephen Cushman’s second collection of poems, Cussing Lesson, in a small seminar for first-year college students. This was not a poetry course, but a freshman course on myths of adolescence and the literary imagination. Before we took up Cushman’s poetry collection, we’d read a novel, a play, and two collections of short […]
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