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Hart Crane: An Exegesis

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Chariots of Fire

Nadie

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This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

Sherwood Park

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

The Doors

A Farra do Circo

Smokehouse

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer

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Rob Roy

Collaboration: Ron Padgett