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The Net
Babette Deutsch, "The Net" from The Collected Poems of Babette Deutsch, published by Doubleday. Copyright © 1969 by Babette Deutsch. Reprinted by permission of Estate of Babette Deutsch.
Source: Poetry (May 1945).
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Biography
Poet, novelist, editor, and critic Babette Deutsch was born and lived much of her life in New York City. She began to publish poems in journals such as the New Republic while a student at Barnard College, where she earned a BA. Two years after her graduation, she published her first poetry collection, Banners (1919).
Aligned with the Imagist movement, Deutsch typically composed compact, lyrical pieces using crisp visual . . .
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SUBJECT Time & Brevity, Living
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
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