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Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   PUTNEY — Elena Harap Dodd, actress and writer, has lived in Putney for decades. She toured her one-woman show, “Meet Eleanor Roosevelt,” from 1991 to 2014, after co-founding the Streetfeet Women, a Boston area writer’s collective 40 years ago when she was living in Roxbury. The group recently published an anthology, “Metaphors Are Not Enough.” The collection includes memoir, poems, very short plays, excerpts from a novel and reflections. The title of the book speaks to its richness. The pieces are varied in perspective; in some, the writing is almost entirely metaphorical; some are composed of very concrete details, and many are a combination of the two. Some poems are concrete and down-to-earth: in “Lunar New Year Poem,” Christina Liu begins:

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