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Sunday, September 16, 2012

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Robert Lowell
reading
at the Poetry Center,
San Francisco State University
March 27, 1957

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Ron Silliman was born in Pasco, Washington, although his parents stayed there just long enough for his mother to learn that one could step on field mice while walking barefoot
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