Poet Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio, and grew up in the lumber and farming regions of Virginia and Ohio. His father was a lumberjack and welder who died at age fifty-six of a heart attack linked to his alcoholism.
Bialosky:
Stanley, Plumly, my poet-teacher, was born in Barnesville, Ohio. His father was a lumberjack and and welder who died at age fifty-eight of alcoholism.
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Also, not a plagiarism, but really? "Influenced by European poets like Lorca and Neruda..." (p. 124).
The European poet Neruda is really too much. I'm beginning to think that much of the book's writing farmed out to assistants.
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