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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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| Stanley Kunitz |
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Stanley Kunitz was deeply committed to fostering community among artists, and was a founder of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets House in New York City....
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| An Old Cracked Tune
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by Stanley Kunitz |
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My name is Solomon Levi,
the desert is my home,
my mother's breast was thorny,
and father I had none.
The sands whispered, Be separate,
the stones taught me, Be hard.
I dance, for the joy of surviving,
on the edge of the road.
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From The Collected Poems by Stanley Kunitz (W. W. Norton, 2000). Copyright © 1971 by Stanley Kunitz. Used by permission of W. W. Norton. All rights reserved.
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