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

still has a deep love of books and reading.

The excerpt from the poem tells us of the memories the speaker has from his past, when he used to go to a bookstore uptown on Gay Street. We can tell this is a memory by his use of past tense and by the phrase "even today" to move to the present. When he talks about the present day, he says that he reads hardcover, and occasionally paperback. This implies that nowadays the author maintains his love of books.

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