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Poets Can Learn from Acrobats
If the message of the poets is so all-fired important why don’t they try to say it more clearly?
May
1
1940
GILBERT SELDES
Poets Can Learn from Acrobats
GILBERT SELDES
May
1
1940
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Poets Can Learn from Acrobats
If the message of the poets is so all-fired important why don’t they try to say it more clearly?
May
1
1940
GILBERT SELDES
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