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| | The Art of Drowning |
 | | Sure, we’ll recognize and read some of the all-timers – Yeats and Keats (pronounced differently, as the Irish and English are always asymmetrical), Longfellow and Whitman, Byron and Tennyson, Donne and Milton – in some English Lit class, but who, besides the most literary, knows anything about the current milieu? |
 | | Yet, for $14, poetry will give you 90 word-splattered pages by an unknown who, often as not, will be purposely incomprehensible in the name of "art." |
 | | I "discovered" Billy Collins through an NPR interview about a year ago. |
| www.ninetyandnine.com /Archives/20000410/review.htm (450 words) |
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