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First publication
1956
Literature form
Poems
Writing language
English
Author's country
Canada
Length
44 poems, 58 pages
Notable lines
Do not look for him
In brittle mountain streams;
They are too cold for any god....
— First lines, "Elegy"
How you murdered your family
means nothing to me
as your mouth moves across my body....
And I write this only to rob you
that when one morning my head
hangs dripping with the other generals
from your house gate
that all this was anticipated
and so you will know that it meant nothing to me.
"Letter"
Well finally it has happened,
Imagines someone at another house,
Staring one more minute out his window
Before waking up his wife.
— Last lines, "Beside the Shepherd"
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