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The 10 Strangest Poetry Books of the Last 100 Years

March 13, 2013

Anne Carson’s new book Red Doc> inspired me to think of other works of poetry that made me feel, in Dickinson's words, "as if the top of my head were taken off." Here’s the result: from an Ouija board-assisted volume to a "starving hysterical naked" masterpiece.

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