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Also by Sophie Cabot Black:

The Exchange, May 2013
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THE EXCHANGE
By: Sophie Cabot Black

Graywolf Press
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
88 pages
ISBN: 1555976417
EAN: 9781555976415
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Fiction Poetry

I took care of myself. I took care
Of myself, thinking much too often
 
I took care of someone else.
Everything feels like payment.
                        —from “Pay Attention”

In The Exchange, Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the language of disease and the language of finance. Following a beloved friend through a long illness and eventual loss, these poems confront in stark emotion the aftermath, even as the outside world—the world of debts paid and collected, of power and dominion—intrudes. What is gained and what is sacrificed, and how can those profits and losses be measured when the currency involved is love?

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