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A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place:

All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.

Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees

The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;

on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.

from "tributaries"

Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, …

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