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Andrés Cerpa

Andrés Cerpa is the author of Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy (January 2019) and The Vault (June 2021) from Alice James Books.

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POETRY

Three Poems

By ANDRéS CERPA

when I imagine myself / I am always leaving / I couldn’t draw my own face if god asked

The Offing

Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.


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