"I liked this because of the elimination of the essential in the composition. I cut it down and down, and down. This squeezed up to make it vivid."

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Poets from the United StatesDemocratic socialistsBeat Generation writersUniversity of Pennsylvania alumniPhysicians from New Jersey
Original Language: English

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Annotation on "Chicory and Daisies" (1915) on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems (c. 1958)