Walking to Martha's Vineyard
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| ISBN | 0618872655 |
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Not the young thing next door
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She’s...
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| ISBN | 1556592841 |
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| ISBN | 0807130842 |
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| ISBN | 0374528845 |
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| ISBN | 0811202348 |
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| ISBN | 0374525366 |
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| ISBN | 0819511927 |
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)
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| ISBN | 0151015260 |
When I picked up Schultz's failure, I didn't...
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| ISBN | 0819560227 |
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| ISBN | 0822957930 |
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| ISBN | 0395320461 |
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| ISBN | 0374527067 |
"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."
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A violent...
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| ISBN | 0393322327 |
A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's...
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Ask for Nothing
Instead walk alone in the evening
heading out of town toward the fields
asleep under a darkening sky;
the dust risen from your steps transforms
itself into a golden rain fallen
earthward...
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| ISBN | 0375701370 |
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| ISBN | 0394722205 |
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Snodgrass...
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