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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
Poetry
Hierarchy
Japanese
Buddhist

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