The Poets Laureate Anthology Forward by Billy Collin, Contributors: Elizabeth Hun Schmidt and The Library of Congress – W. W. Norton & Company
“The first anthology to gather poems by the forty-three poets laureate of the United States.”
The Iron Key: Poems – James Longenbach – W. W. Norton & Company
VENICE
James Longenbach
Mrs. Hunter is the only name I have for her,
A rich old woman who engaged my father, a painter,
To document her collection of keys.
Photographs she considered vulgar.
Read rest of poem @ The New Yorker, July 2, 2007
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