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Article: The Hundredth Anniversary of a Peregrinating Poet
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- November 4, 1994
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Joel Lewis
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11-04-1994
The Hundredth Anniversary of a Peregrinating Poet.
It is sometime in the heart of the Great Depression and the poet Charles Reznikoff is finishing off his workday in downtown Brooklyn. A lawyer who never practiced (save for a disastrous defense of a cousin), he is employing his legal skills at the editorial offices of Corpus Juris, publishers of a standard law encyclopedia. Reznikoff sits at a big wooden table across from the same co-worker every business day and writes legal definitions from A to Z, then starts again with A.
At 5 o'clock, Reznikoff puts his work into his desk drawer and leaves for the day. Rather than taking the trolley or subway, he is walking ...
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