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Autumn/ September 1967 • Vol. XXIX No. 4 • Poetry |

The Theft

By Daniel Mark Epstein

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Daniel Mark Epstein is a poet and biographer who has published more than twenty books of poetry and nonfiction. His "Sonnets For a Cruel April," provides the text for a short dramatic film with Tyne Daly, Jennifer Van Dyck, and other actors that will be available as a webcast and on Youtube in June 2020

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