Popular Longing
NATALIE SHAPERO
COPPER CANYON
PRESS
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for Meg Shevenock
Contents
The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports
The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight
It Used to Be We Had to Go to War
Don’t Spend It All in One Place
Other Things, If Not More Urgent Things
Home, Followed by Tall Buildings
POPULAR
LONGING
Man at His Bath
Six years ago, the big museum sold eight famous paintings
to purchase, for unspecified millions,
Gustave Caillebotte’s MAN AT HIS