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 To see them here brings humbleness, not pride, Poems so well printed, jacketed, and then Braced by comments made by generous men Whose works my own could never stand beside. Here also is that absence, black despair, That stared from blank white spaces at my face Until the courted muse released her grace And words flowed into verses like a prayer. Such moments of eternity-in-time Confirm the Maker in each maker’s rhyme. Upon the Publication of a First Book of Poems The Burning Fields, LSU Press, 1991 ...

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