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Michael Ondaatje is best known as a novelist, but his poems attest to his career-long instinct for invention.
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A Poet of Magnitude and Intimacy: On Linda Gregg
By David Semanki
Gregg lived as she wrote, winnowing down life to bare essentials, which, in turn, made space for the visionary to reveal itself.
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From the magazine:The Singers Change, the Music Goes On
By Linda Gregg
No one really dies in the myths.
No world is lost in the stories.
Everything is lost in the retelling,…
No world is lost in the stories.
Everything is lost in the retelling,…
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From the magazine:She Sang of Seeing
By Sophie Cabot Black
Her poems were lessons in how not to name things, but to instead evoke the outlines of what is seen.
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Bird Left Behind
By Sophie Cabot Black
As for her, the circumstances must be ordinary
And so the return. Door unlocked. The path mowed
Right…
And so the return. Door unlocked. The path mowed
Right…
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1942—2019Linda Gregg
Linda Gregg was born in New York and raised in Marin County, California. She earned both a BA and an MA from San Francisco State University. Gregg published several collections of poetry, including All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (2008), a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2008 and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; In the Middle Distance (2006); Things and Flesh (1999), finalist for the Kingsley Tufts...
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