"I talk facing away from the dead"

From a sequence of poems, each starting with the first line of a poem from a City Lights "Pocket Poets" book.

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And opened with the wind.
His body tilted to the sea
The fool juggles infinity two by two.

City Lights Pocket Poets Series #59

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A photograph of a hardback book, with the title English Romantic Poets, from the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series.

'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William Wordsworth

We’re wishing our followers a happy St George’s Day, courtesy of a host of English Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, Shelley and more.

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Book cover of Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara. White text on a dark blue background with red boarder.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13
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Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
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