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Vice: New and Selected Poems

by Ai · 1999

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Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books—Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed—along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) vision.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1990s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages
Form
poetry

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