And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.
Robert CreeleyAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: May 21, 1926
- Died: March 30, 2005
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