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For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Around
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Many
Poetics
Life
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Road
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