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https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/promiscuously-A.png649812Heather Cass White, PhD ’98, teaches English at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and is best known for editing several collections of work by the American modernist poet Marianne Moore. Here, she explores the pleasures of reading itself and contemplates its transformative power.