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"The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

"My joy is the same as twelve Ethiopian goats standing silent in the morning light," writes Jack Gilbert in his poem "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart." His Collected Poems will be published by Knopf in March.

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Jack Gilbert
2012
Collected Poems

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