Read the excerpt from “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.” There was a bookstore uptown on gay street Which I visited and inhaled that wonderful odor Of new books Even today I read hardcover as a preference

Read the excerpt from “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.”

There was a bookstore uptown on gay street
Which I visited and inhaled that wonderful odor
Of new books
Even today I read hardcover as a preference and paperback only
As a last resort

The implicit details in this excerpt show that the speaker

is puzzled by the unusual scent of new books.
still believes that the uptown bookstore is the best.
is sad that the uptown bookstore no longer exists.
still has a deep love of books and reading as an adult.

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