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The Vigil
Because he was as hard to handle
As truth, which we equate with light,
Go somewhere dark and hold a candle
For Alan Sullivan tonight.
Source: Poetry (March 2009).
Biography
Aaron Poochigian has translated Sappho for Penguin Classics (2009) and Aratus' Phaenomena for Johns Hopkins University Press (2010).
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