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Dear Rilke: Not-So-Helpful Advice From Your Favorite Poet

January 31, 2013

Rilke is back! In advice column form, at least. The main brain behind Letters to a Young Poet is here to read your woeful attempts at eloquence and save your poor literary soul.

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