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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg 

photograph by Dana Steichen (1925)


Blacklisted

Why shall I keep the old name?
What is a name anywhere anyway?
A name is a cheap thing all fathers and mothers leave
    each child:
A job is a job and I want to live, so
Why does God Almighty or anybody else care whether
    I take a new name to go by?

John Ashbery

  The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...

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