Deborah Garrison is a poet and the poetry editor for the Knopf imprint at Random House. Six years ago she astonished cynics and publishing executives by showing that a book of poetry could be a bestseller. It was called A Working Girl Can’t Win. Her poems resonate with a fresh honest perspective from young woman working in the city dealing with love, loneliness, and the strange universe of the office.
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