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Lucky Poems
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Description

Poems of chance, contingency, gambling, likelihoods, long shots, odds, prospects, and wagers for Lady and Mister Luck.
Synopsis

"The dice of the intellect are loaded." --W. B. Yeats
 
Poetry
Luck is not chance (1350) by Emily Dickinson
Chance by Molly Peacock
Personal Poem by Frank O'Hara
Page 22 / oh lucky me by Frances Chung
A Nest Full of Stars by James Berry
Atlantic City Sunday Morning by Gregory Pardlo
Gold by Donald Hall
Inventing Father In Las Vegas by Lynn Emanuel
Kore by Robert Creeley
Lucky by Tony Hoagland
Palea by Tory Dent
Tender Buttons [A Box] by Gertrude Stein
Red Velvet Jacket by Lynda Hull
driving to Vegas by Kirk Robertson
3 Men: Portraits Without the Human Figure by Deena Linnett
How to Get Riches by Benjamin Franklin
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) by William Shakespeare
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans by Philip Appleman
Happily [excerpt] by Lyn Hejinian
 
Prose
The Art of Finding by Linda Gregg
 
Poets
Jackson Mac Low
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