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201:Edwin Muir
181:Ezra Pound
132:Amy Lowell
1181:Mark Doty
1171:Rita Dove
1166:Gary Soto
1156:Joy Harjo
878:Thom Gunn
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502:Mina Loy
161:Mina Loy
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1445:(1973)
1430:(1962)
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