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“Cuisine Bourgeoise,” copyright © 1942 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by permission of Alfred Knopf, Inc.
“Gerontion” in Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: copyright © 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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