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Also Known As	David Abraham Antin
Born	February 1, 1932 • New York City • New York
Died	October 11, 2016 (aged 84) • San Diego • California
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Louis Zukofsky

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Robert Bly

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H.D.

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Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Jonathan Franzen

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John Ciardi

American poet and critic

Eric Bentley

American critic, translator, and stage director

Robert Fitzgerald

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Paul Bowles

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Richard Howard

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Robert Pinsky

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James Wright

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Babette Deutsch

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Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet

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Dudley Fitts

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Carolyn Forché

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May Swenson

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Donald Justice

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Horace Gregory

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Richmond Lattimore

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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