• By Emily Gould
    Apr 30, 2007 5:10 PM 3,997
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    Meghan O'Rourke's Cup Runneth Up And Out

    A fun game for poetry nerds: read the first line or sentence of a favorite poet's first book, and imagine it as a summary of the writer's entire career... Meghan O'Rourke, the culture editor of Slate, offers a terse contribution to the first-sentence genre in this, her debut collection: "My poor eye."
    Um, ok! It's maybe not as good a summary of Meghan's career, though, as it is a summary of our response to this illustration, in which she appears to be... squirting? —Emily

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