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By Melody Tootoonchi American University’s own David Keplinger is a man of words, through and through— from poetry to translation to song. He is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent of which (Another City) is being published this month by Milkweed Editions. …
By Vince Granata The question–a troubling one I’m still contending with–came out of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. In the novel, Calvino imagines a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn, a back and forth in which Polo describes cities that Kahn believes span his empire. Eventually, Kahn …