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Thin
Source: Poetry (April 2005).
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Biography
Born in California in 1945 and acknowledged as one of the most original voices in the contemporary landscape, Kay Ryan is the author of several books of poetry, including Flamingo Watching (2006), The Niagara River (2005), and Say Uncle (2000). Her book The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Ryan's tightly compressed, rhythmically dense poetry is often compared to that of Emily . . .
Poems by Kay Ryan
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Winter, Weather, Animals, Arts & Sciences, Philosophy, Poetry & Poets
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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