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Lines and Stanzas, Concerning “Found Things”

“Found Things” is one of the last poems in Text and Commentary, and it is a poem where I was trying to find a new way to think and to live. I had been in a competitive situation at ACC and I had come out losing that competition, and had resigned an administrative post I had. I had been editing a quarterly magazine on the side, and the Bush I recession hit and all our advertising money disappeared. And I suspected that my marriage was ending. And I was nearing forty. So I was experiencing loss and trying to find a way through it. “Found Things” is my philosophical gambit to avoid depression and loss of self-esteem.

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