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Princeton University Press, paperback
Publication Date: August 21, 1979
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“[An] ambitious and immensely likable long poem . . . a poem which–a rare thing–seems to combine intimacy and authority.”– “The New York Times Book Review”
“Wise and compassionate. . . . It is one of the most readable long poems in recent memory, graspable by all.” —Kenneth Funsten, The Los Angeles Times
“I can’t imagine anyone who, after reading An Explanation of America, wouldn’t want to return to it again and again.” —William H. Pritchard, Poetry
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