© 2018, Text by Grady Chambers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chambers, Grady.
North American stadiums: poems / by Grady Chambers.
Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018009103 (print) | LCCN 2018003189 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319937 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571315045 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Classification: LCC PS3603.H354 (print) | LCC PS3603.H354 A6 2018 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018009103
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Contents
Explaining the Resurrection in Simple Words
2 The Life
8 A Summer
3 Pin
4 Dragons
