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Winter 1954 • Vol. XVI No. 1 • Poetry |

A Voice from under the Table

By Richard Wilbur

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Richard Wilbur was the author of nine volumes of poetry. He was the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes among many other awards, and was this nation's second poet laureate.

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