What Was It For

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By Adrienne Raphel ’10

Published April 5, 2017

What Was It For (Rescue Press), winner of the 2015 Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize, is Adrienne Raphel ’10’s debut poetry collection. Raphel is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Harvard University.

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