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Anaerobe
NOTES: Read the Q&A with Richard Kenney about this poem
Source: Poetry (December 2012).
Biography
Poet Richard Kenney was born in 1948 in Glens Falls, New York and earned a BA from Dartmouth College. His first collection of poetry, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (1984), received the Yale Younger Poets Prize. The book’s formal ambitiousness and technical facility, including an extended sonnet sequence, presaged Kenney’s future work, which has won accolades for its deft use of traditional forms and themes as well as its . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Time & Brevity, Nature, Animals, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION U.S., Northwestern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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