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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology

by Marianna Moore, Thomas Wolfe, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Czeslaw Milosz, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke · 1992

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Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Thomas Wolfe, Czeslaw Milosz, and Henry David Thoreau.

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