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In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke for my Ph.D.

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
California
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