Lawrence Raab
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Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
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2015
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The History of Forgetting
7 editions
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published
2009
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Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems
5 editions
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published
2003
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What We Don't Know About Each Other
2 editions
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1993
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The Probable World
3 editions
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published
2000
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The collector of cold weather (The American poetry series ; v. 9)
6 editions
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published
1976
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April at the Ruins
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Other Children
2 editions
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published
1940
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Mysteries of the Horizon.
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The Life Beside This One
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“I’d like to tell you
not to be afraid, but I’ve lost
my voice. I’m not used to all these
legs, these claws, these feelers.
It’s the old story, predictable
as fallout—the rearrangement of molecules.
And everyone is surprised
and no one understands
why each man tries to kill
the thing he loves, when the change
comes over him. So now you know
what I never found the time to say.
Sweetheart, put down your flamethrower.
You know I always loved you.”
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not to be afraid, but I’ve lost
my voice. I’m not used to all these
legs, these claws, these feelers.
It’s the old story, predictable
as fallout—the rearrangement of molecules.
And everyone is surprised
and no one understands
why each man tries to kill
the thing he loves, when the change
comes over him. So now you know
what I never found the time to say.
Sweetheart, put down your flamethrower.
You know I always loved you.”
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