Copyright © 2012 Liza Klaussmann
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“Depression Before Spring” and “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
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