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Phil Christman on the Poetics of Place
Excerpted from Best of the Rust Belt (Belt Publishing, 2024). This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues below I think nothing has shadowed my development as a writer more than my failure to have an …