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A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Pamela Ryder’s Paradise Field

 

“Things—small things—are riding down the gutter with the rain.”

—Paradise Field, Pamela Ryder

 

The poetic weight of a small detail—seizing what is beneath and laying it bare—well, that is Pamela Ryder for you.

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