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The White Review No. 33 features interviews with writer Siri Hustvedt and feminist scholar Sara Ahmed. The issue includes new fiction by Gina Apostol,...

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The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023
For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...

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John Ashbery
John Ashbery (1927-2017) was one of the great American poets. This poem was published in The White Review No. 8.

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The Cloud of Knowing

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Issue No. 8

John Ashbery

poetry

Issue No. 8

There are those who would have paid that. The amount your eyes bonded with (O spangled home) will have to work it out in...
The Cloud of Knowing

poetry

Issue No. 8

John Ashbery

poetry

Issue No. 8

There are those who would have paid that. The amount your eyes bonded with (O spangled home) will have to work it out in...

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