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With a storyteller's precision, poet BJ Ward combines reverence with irreverence. He plumbs "the dried-up hearts / of fish and the dropping hearts of bats" to realize that "even the grandest of hearts / can harden." In the title poem he buries his new girlfriend's cat on his birthday, bringing forth simultaneous feelings of new love and mourning.

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Capturing the joys, rituals, challenges, and celebration associated with birthdays, an anthology of classic poetry features the works of Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Bob Dylan, Rita Dove, Sylvia Plath, Ishmael Reed, Sharon Olds, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, and other notables. Original.

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Gregory Corso has been much publicized as one of the leading literary spokesmen for the 'Beat Generation, ' together with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature.

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Capturing the joys, rituals, challenges, and celebration associated with birthdays, an anthology of classic poetry features the works of Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Bob Dylan, Rita Dove, Sylvia Plath, Ishmael Reed, Sharon Olds, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, and other notables. Original.

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