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Pablo Neruda (Chile) 1904-1973
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Katrine Marie Guldager (Denmark) 1966
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Jayanta Mahapatra (India) 1928
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Edvard Kocbek (Austria-Hungary / Yugoslavia / now Slovenia)
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Peter Gizzi (USA) 1959
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Luuk Gruwez (Belgium / writes in Dutch) 1953
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Rocco Scotellaro (Italy) 1923-1953
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Carl Sandburg (USA) 1878-1967
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Andrée Chedid (b. Egypt / France) 1920-2011
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Kay Boyle (USA) 1902-1992
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Octavio Paz (Mexico) 1914-1998
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Will Alexander (USA) 1948
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POETRY FOR READERS | Andrée Chedid : Fugitive Suns: Selected Poems
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Nishiwaki Junzaburō (Japan) 1894-1982
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POETRY FOR READERS : Nishiwaki Junzaburō : The Modern Fable
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Remco Campert (Netherlands) 1929-2022
Remco Campert (Netherlands)1929-2022Remco Campert has been the least inclined of the Dutch Fiftiers to lend himself to spectacular experimental expression: all his writing displays his characteristic...
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POETRY FOR READERS | Rachel Blau DuPlessis : Selected Poems
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