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Nearly every poem in this National Poetry Series winner from Puhak (Guinevere in Baltimore) is titled with a close variant of the phrase "Portrait of the Artist," yet what widely different journeys each takes us on, from the first scares of motherhood ("A child too perfect// calls to the knife. Hallelujah the birthmark, the extra digit") to love ("I carried/ water for you, the one for whom the world's/ aqueducts/ were not conduit enough"). P...Log In or Sign Up to Read More