[New-Poetry] from the Almanac

[Anny Ballardini]

"The poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself
is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental."


It's the birthday of the poet *Richard
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born in New York City (1921). He served in the infantry during WWII. In his
foxhole, he read Edgar Allan Poe and wrote the poems that became his first
book: *The Beautiful Changes* (1947). *Things of This World* (1956) received
a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.


-- 
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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