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Tanuki

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Sun May 19, 2013, 09:36 AM May 2013

"Shirt"- Robert Pinsky

The events in Bangladesh made me think of the poem "Shirt," by former US Poet
Laureate Robert Pinsky. Here is the poem, along with a video of Pinsky reading it at a festival in Lowell, Mass.
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You can read the poem here:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15479

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"Shirt"- Robert Pinsky (Original Post) Tanuki May 2013 OP
Thank you. K&R n/t OneGrassRoot May 2013 #1
Letters as art Octafish May 2013 #2
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