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-1529) is the first great modern English poet

and how they can be used in surprising

both in her personal and professional choices and in the many lives she led and the many worlds she inhabited

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Words by the Water Catherine E. Thomas -1529) is the first greatWilliam Jay Smith has been one of the most respected figures on the literary scene for more than half a century. Two of his thirteen poetry collections were finalists for the National Book Award, and the present volume is clearly the work of a true American master. The volume opens with a poetic sequence, "The Atoll," concerning the tiny coral island of Palmyra during World War II. Finding himself on the narrow rim of an extinct volcano at almost the