The Collected Longer Poems

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-25549

ISBN: 978-0-811-22257-0 (e-book)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The first ten sections of “The Heart’s Garden, the Garden’s Heart”
were first published in book form by the Pym-Randall Press. “The
Homestead Called Damascus” was first published in The Quarterly
Review of Literature, Volume IX, Number 2, 1957.

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