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An Afternoon at the Beach
Edgar Bowers, “An Afternoon at the Beach” from Collected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). Copyright © 1997 by Edgar Bowers. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Edgar Bowers.
Source: Poetry (December 1961).
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Biography
Edgar Bowers was born in 1924 in Rome, Georgia and earned his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drafted into the army during World War II, he was active in the de-Nazification of Germany, and was stationed for a year at Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s retreat in the Alps. After the war, he earned his MA and PhD from Stanford, where he studied closely with Yvor Winters. Both his experiences of Europe during the war . . .
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SUBJECT Nature, Friends & Enemies, Relationships, Living, Death, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
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