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Poems for Ed
Selected by Billy Merrell
Description

I share poems with my friend Ed. Ever since we were in high school, I could tell if I truly loved a poem by if I felt an urge to hand write a copy for him. And the traditon continues. Here are the poems I've sent to my best friend, some because they reminded me of him, others because they're just inspiring poems.
Synopsis

Poems that make me think of my friend.
 
Poetry
About Death and Other Things by Aleksandar Ristovic
Ave Maria by Frank O'Hara
First Gestures by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
In Flight by Jennifer K. Sweeney
The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens
Broadway by Mark Doty
After the Movie by Marie Howe
The White Fires of Venus by Denis Johnson
The Abduction by Stanley Kunitz
Art Class by James Galvin
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems by James Tate
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer
Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish
My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks by Jane Kenyon
Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
XXI Dynasty
by Thomas James
To Brooklyn Bridge by Hart Crane
Falling by James Dickey
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