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Nationality of Author:
"American"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Twentieth Century"
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Date: 1912
"Could we deftly lift the curtain / Which the cunning serpent draws, / Like the veil of night about us, / We would find that paradise, / Like a flower in winter, lies / 'Neath the stubbles of our souls."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: 1912
"Who does not harbor in his breast / The fruitage of forbidden things / Culled from beauty's lips and heart, / And folded in between the leaves / Of memory's roll of reveries."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: December, 1917
"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: 1960
"Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)
Date: August, 1965
"His mind's all black thickets / and blood."
preview | full record— Harrison, Jim (1937-2016)
Date: 1972
"Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, / Blowing through the jasmine in my mind."
preview | full record— Seals, Jim (b. 1941) and Dash Crofts (b. 1940)
Date: 1990
"I did not know the soul / is cleaved so that the soul might be restored. / Live wood hewn, / its sap springs from a sticky wound."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
