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Tag: waking

Theodore Roethke
Poetry

Theodore Roethke – The Waking

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theodore Roethke was an intensely introspective poet whose work has been hailed by critics as some of the finest American poetry from the last century.

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