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Richard Siken’s “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” from the 2005 collection Crush.

Richard Siken’s “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” from the 2005 collection Crush.

You Think You Are Something Less Real Than You Are from 2012 by Wendy Xu.

You Think You Are Something Less Real Than You Are from 2012 by Wendy Xu.

Ashley Capps’ 2006 collection Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields from University of Akron Press.

Ashley Capps’ 2006 collection Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields from University of Akron Press.

Patricia Lockwood’s 2014 collection Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, publishes by Penguin Poets.

Patricia Lockwood’s 2014 collection Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, publishes by Penguin Poets.

Federico Garcia Lorca’s In Search of Duende, published in 2010 by New Directions and translated from the Spanish.

Ana Ristovic’s 2016 collection Directions for Use, translated from Serbian.

Ana Ristovic’s 2016 collection Directions for Use, translated from Serbian.

Linda Besner’s 2017 collection Feel Happier in 9 Seconds.

Linda Besner’s 2017 collection Feel Happier in 9 Seconds.

Danez Smith’s 2015 collection Black Movie.

Danez Smith’s 2015 collection Black Movie.

Don Patterson’s 1993 collection Nil Nil.

Don Patterson’s 1993 collection Nil Nil.

Alex Manley’s 2016 collection “We Are All Just Animals & Plants.”

Alex Manley’s 2016 collection “We Are All Just Animals & Plants.”

The opening section of David Foster Wallace's 2011 novel The Pale King.