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Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue

Peter Hargitai

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iUniverse
Año de edición:
2003
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9780595273027
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American Academy of Poets award-winning poet-translator Peter Hargitai considers the raging, aging child in this highly original collection of poems. His earlier work was listed in Yale critic Harold Bloom’s prestigious The Western Canon.

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