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This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Good
Trusting
Things
Stranger
Time
Speech
Poetry
Sense
Human
Humans
Questioned
Thing
Darker

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