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On the poetry of Ange Mlinko

Paul Franz
Mar 04, 2026
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This essay first appeared some while ago in the London Review of Books. My thanks to the editors.

Ange Mlinko​ has long presented herself as an enthusiast, a collector, an exhibitor: of experiences and of lore, especially the histories of words. This sensibility, which also inclines towards eccentric forms of performance, has been on display in her work…

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