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Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Watermark in a Poem

There is a particular concatenation of three adjectives, which appears in several poems. One simply may not use the word birch in a poem without summoning robert frost as a swinger of birches. Also another i would say, i don't know what you would think of this, that all the tewing and frowing on the isaac hands and the israel hands. A brings me to another of his heroes, or heroinesa elizabeth bishop, r having to do with the corrective component that i think we've talked about a time when actu in the pon cast one of her tread marks.

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