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Merle Lyn Bachman is a poet and associate professor of English at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is the author of “Recovering ‘Yiddishland’ ”: Threshold Moments in American Literature” (Syracuse University Press, 2008) and a book of poetry, “Diorama with Fleeing Figures” (Shearsman Books, 2009).