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This is the title poem from the book View of Toledo by William Allen (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/view-of-toledo-by-william-allen/
William Allen is a poet and visual artist, working at the United Nations in New York for many years, hoping to bring a poetry of humanism to the poetry canon. He has published six books of poems: The Man on the Moon (New York University and Persea Presses, 1987); Sevastopol: On Photographs of War (Xenos Press, 1997), North Passage (Clay Street Press, 2018), The Largest Glue Factory in the World (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024), A History of the Azores (Clay Street Press, 2025) and The Birth of the Atlantic (Spuyten Duyvil, 2026). A member of PEN America, he was awarded a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship with residencies at Art Matters, Yaddo, Breadloaf and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. These days he’s working with a conservation group in the Hudson Valley to inventory natural resources and prepare people and the environment for climate change
