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One hundred poems from the poetry placards in New York City's subway and buses. Amid ads for mace and cockroach exterminators, a happy glimmer in 16 lines or less. From Sappho, to W.H. Auden, to Chu Chen Po.Tags
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Molly Peacock is the author of six previous poetry collections, including The Second Blush and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems. President emerita of the Poetry Society of America, she cocreated Poetry in Motion, a program of placards on subways and buses. She is based in Toronto and New York.
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Teen
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- 808.81 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections Collections of poetry
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- PN6101 .P542 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature German Poetry
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