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A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
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Peace Activist
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
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