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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

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Issue No. 8

John Ashbery

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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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