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    Sometime a Fine Morning: Poems of Philadelphia
    Sometime a Fine Morning: Poems of Philadelphia
    Sometime a Fine Morning: Poems of Philadelphia
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    Sometime a Fine Morning: Poems of Philadelphia

    By Ernest Yates

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    This is Ernest Yates’s fourteenth volume of poems, and the eleventh volume in an ongoing series based on his wanderings through Philadelphia streets.

    In this volume the poet’s morning walk along one of Philadelphia’s main thoroughfares introduces a realm “beyond belief,” as the volume’s first poem announces. Then in poem after poem the secular city provides ground and counterpoint to the poet’s variable meditations, as the city’s impersonality drives the poet to contemplate such human values as love, beauty, freedom, justice. In the end the poet moves on, bearing away all vain musings; it is the city?in its varied, raw physicality?that abides.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 8, 2021
    ISBN9781664165632
    Sometime a Fine Morning: Poems of Philadelphia
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    Ernest Yates

    Born in Ancon, Panama, and raised in New Orleans, Ernest Yates obtained a doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived and worked in the Philadelphia area for fifty years. Mr. Yates has published poetry in dozens of literary magazines and journals, and has won the Grand Prize of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, among other poetry awards. For further information, please consult Mr. Yates’s website? ernestyates.com

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