Drucilla Wall’s poem “Deer Woman at Fifty” prompted an observation and query from Richard Newman, editor of the St. Louis-based literary magazine River Styx. “For the doe in the poem, hunting season ended well before middle age,” Newman wrote in the St. Louis Beacon....
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