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Name: Once
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Author: Meghan O'Rourke

The incandescent poems in *Once* explore violence, loss, and recovery. Invoking both the personal and the civic self, they chart uncertain new beginnings in a shattered nation. What emerges is both a poignant meditation on a daughter's relationship with her mother and a citizen's relationship to her country.

First publish date: 2011

Authors: Meghan O'Rourke

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