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Poet's Choice:Poems for Everyday Life
Selected and introduced by Robert Hass (1998).


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The first stanzas of a poem by Galway Kinnell


"Blackberry Eating

I love to got out in late Septemger
among the fat, overripe, icy, blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks very prickly, a penalty
they earn for the black art
of blackberry-making;..."

 

 


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