A Memory of the Future

  The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose of Josephine Jacobsen

  Copyright © 2018 by Elizabeth Spires

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  Names: Spires, Elizabeth, author.

  Title: A memory of the future : poems / Elizabeth Spires.

  Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018004711 | ISBN 9780393651058 (hardcover)

  Classification: LCC PS3569.P554 A6 2018 | DDC 811/.54—dc23

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