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    The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
    The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
    The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
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    The Collected Poems of John Ciardi

    By John Ciardi

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    From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press
    Release dateApr 1, 1997
    ISBN9781610751032
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