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Charles Martin’s Room for Error

by Robert Hass
Issue #14
Fall 1978
"Where there is room for error," Charles Martin writes, meditating on the past which has been forged by the articulation of the bones of dinosaurs at the Brooklyn Museum, "there is room for us." It is very much the theme...

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