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| | Contrary: Ben Maddow |
 | | Fresh from Columbia University, Ben Maddow wrote by night about the urban nightmare he witnessed by day as a social worker in the slums of New York City. |
 | | As Ben Maddow's career flourished, David Wolff's slipped into the past, and “The City” slept in the yellowing pages of Poetry's archives. |
 | | Known best as a screenwriter, Maddow continued over the years to nurture his private muse, and in 1991 he authorized the publication of "A False Autobiography," the harvest of five decades of his best poems (Available in paperback for $18.75, hardback for $28.75, from Other Shore Press, 95 Corona Way, Carmel, CA 93923). |
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