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Landscape at the End of the Century
β Scribed by Stephen Dunn
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2014;1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 28 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0393308537
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β¦ Synopsis
"Here is the mature work of a poet who has always managed to delight--but who now demands something more of us. He asks us to enter the twenty-first century with open eyes: attentive to the past, eager for the future, naming what we love."--Judith Kitchen, Georgia Review
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