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National Anthem.(Brief article)(Book review)
The America of Prufer's fourth collection is an empire in decline, a medicated landscape ("snow / like little tranquilizers all over the yard") peopled by pilgrims to shopping malls. The book opens with a panoramic vision of the aftermath of apocalypse--"expired" cars, silenced TVs, coffins "unmoored and happy with the storm"--but ends intimately, with ...
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