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The reader is guided by a little girl and a museum custodian through the great traumas of recent history. In the last section of the book, The Russian Hat, Serea transports the reader into a metropolis as strange as the past she carries with her, to the museum of our lives, where we are the curators, the visitors, and the paintings that paint themselves. This astonishing place vaguely resembles New York City distorted by memories and dreams, but it might as well be Las Vegas where what happens in the poem stays in the poem. 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She writes: Tell me, grandma, everything you know \/ so I can be your mouth when you are gone. The grief is lasting; memory must serve as justice. - Charles Rammelkamp, editor of The Potomac Review, author of Fusen Bakudan ABOUT THE AUTHOR Claudia Serea, a two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in New Letters, 5 a.m., Meridian, Word Riot, Apple Valley Review, and many others. She is the author of Angels \u0026amp; Beasts (Phoenicia Publishing, Canada, 2012), The System (Cold Hub Press, New Zealand, 2012), and To Part Is to Die a Little (Cervena Barva Press, forthcoming). 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