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    Linked/Robins
    Linked/Robins
    Linked/Robins
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    Linked/Robins

    By Dan Saxon

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    Dan Saxon has been writing and publishing since the early 1960s when he contributed to and published Poets at Le Metro. Dans poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies including East Side Scene, American Poets 1960-1965 published by Anchor Doubleday, 1972 and In a Time of Revolution, Poems from our Third World, Random House, 1969. Born in the Bronx, New York Dan is a graduate of the Horace Mann School, The University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), and Montclair University (MA). He enjoys travel, the arts, tennis, family and friends. He is married, has two children and four grandchildren. He resides in Rutherford, New Jersey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 4, 2008
    ISBN9781465322203
    Linked/Robins
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    Dan Saxon

    Links/Robins are collections of my poems/writings on a variety of topics composed during the 1990’s through 2003. I combined them in this edition. Please read and enjoy. It is my pleasure to share this collection with you and hope you find it interesting and worthwhile.

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      Linked/Robins - Dan Saxon

      Copyright © 2008 by Dan Saxon.

      Library of Congress Control Number:    2007910022

      ISBN:                    Softcover:                    978-1-4363-1074-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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      Contents

      L I N K E D

      Floating Around

      Equanimity

      Hell

      What if Romeo and Juliet… .

      Rainbow Psyche

      Know It All

      Strawberries

      Directions

      Mist

      Politics

      Crossing

      Linked

      Two

      So Many Stars

      Empty Nest

      Senility

      Preparedness

      Rambling Nothingness

      Embrace-Upon Arrival

      Princess

      Baggage

      Opera in the Park

      Squirrel Odyssey

      Springtime

      Response

      Blemish

      Around

      Sound Tears

      Measure

      Cold Walk

      Conflict

      Evening Walk

      Workshop Submission

      Avalon

      What?

      Because, Just because…

      Time

      Thanksgiving

      A Fable

      Atrophy

      Masochist

      Scourge

      R O B I N S

      personality/climate

      Spider

      Boxer

      New Life

      Requests

      Robins

      Closer

      Autumn Night

      Grandchild

      Calling

      Magician

      Crickets and…

      Elsewhere

      Perspective

      Course

      Conscience

      some of this summer… and so on…

      Workshop Dream

      Fisherman

      warfare

      word processor

      Tennis anyone?

      Coincidence

      Contemplation

      The day moves…

      if i told you

      Earth Hotel

      Destiny

      Driving*

      Dan Saxon’s poems have appeared in:

      L I N K E D

      POEMS BY DAN SAXON

      Dan Saxon’s poems have appeared in:

      The East Side Scene, American Poetry 1960-65 published by Anchor Doubleday, 1972

      In a Time of Revolution, Poems from Our Third World Random House, 1969

      Sensations Magazine, Lunch, Passaic Review, University of Tampa Review, Intrepid, Kauri, Yowl, Lines, Poets at Le Metro, Wormwood Review, and others.

      Absence, 1962; Atman, 1965; In the Shower and Out of It, 1966; Another Flight, 1976

      The New York Public Library’s exhibit (January 24, 1998 to July 25, 1998): A Secret Location on the Lower East Side 1960-1980 of mimeographed publications as publisher of Poems Collected at Les Deux Megots/Poets at Le Metro 1961-1965.

      Floating Around

      When the moon speaks an unintelligible language

      and the stars do

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