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Poetry: Just a Dream

“I received a sign in my dream that you would vanish from me,” Naja Marie Aidt writes in (Coffee House Press, 2019). “But images and signs cannot be interpreted before they’re played out in concrete events. You only understand them in retrospect.” In her memoir, translated from the Danish by Denise Newman, Aidt explores the

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