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Word: acheron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflicting forces. His poetry leaps with disconcerting metamorphoses at every turn of speech. The bullets that "a stringy policeman" counts become rosary beads. The swan-shaped boats on the ornamental ponds of the Boston Public Garden become mythological birds taking his grandfather, Arthur Winslow, beyond Charles River to the Acheron where the wide waters and their voyager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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