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-Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychography", published in The Los Angeles Review.

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…build your own dreams…

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— J. Allyn Rosser, from Sugar Dada

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Details of Supporter, Nick Alm (2016)

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Ada Limón, from “The Good Fight”, Bright Dead Things

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Konstantin Somov, Lady in Blue “(Portrait of the Artist Yelizaveta Martynova)” detail, ca. 1897-1900

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— Natalie Diaz, Manhattan Is a Lenape Word

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Sushanta Kumar Adhikary. Untitled, 2000.

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-anonymous.

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Francois Clouet - A Lady in Her Bath. Detail. 1571

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—Rita Dove, from November For Beginners

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Detail from “The Blind Girl”, 1856, John Everett Millais.

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-Emily Dickinson.

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Helen of Troy (detail) Frederick Sandys 

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“I am the prisoner of this small body I have been given, and I have to stay calm within it, without knowing why or for how long, when I could, with one strike of my hand, knock down the closed door.”

— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “LXXXIV”