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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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