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Night Music : Poems by L. E. Sissman; Peter Davison is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His poetry gave back to life more generously than h
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- Author
- L. E. Sissman; Peter Davison
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780395925706
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Literary Collections
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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