Lunch Portraits

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By Debora Kuan ’99

Published April 23, 2018

The poems in Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press) revel in the small things, like movies, cats, youth, and selfies. The poems use this focus on the everyday to work through alienation, what makes us human, and cycle between fear and joy.

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