Immediate Song. Don Bogen
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IMMEDIATE SONG
ALSO BY DON BOGEN
Poetry
An Algebra
Luster
The Known World
After the Splendid Display
Translation
Europa: Selected Poems of Julio Martínez Mesanza
Criticism
A Necessary Order: Theodore Roethke and the Writing Process
IMMEDIATE SONG
Poems
DON BOGEN
MILKWEED EDITIONS
© 2019, Text by Don Bogen
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Published 2019 by Milkweed Editions
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Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker
Cover illustration: The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Cincinnati and Environs, Cincinnati, 1912
Author photo by Claudia Monpere
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bogen, Don, author.
Title: Immediate song : poems / Don Bogen.
Description: First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018032685 (print) | LCCN 2018035247 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319449 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571314819 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Classification: LCC PS3552.O4337 (ebook) | LCC PS3552. O4337 A6 2019 (print) | DDC 811/.54--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018032685
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For Ted, Anna, Garrett, and Sam
In memory of Cathryn
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