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25 mars 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.12278
- isbn: 9782842699253
- eisbn: 9782367813998
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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épopée Dakota du Nord Irlandais-Américains poésie politique gauche américaine (Industrial Workers of the World) Parti communiste américain epic North Dakota Irish-Americans political poetry American Left (Industrial Workers of the World) Communist Party of America LIT014000 Poetry DSCCiter ce document
Jack Beeching, « To The Memory of Thomas McGrath », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.12278
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As the sun drops down, at the fall of the leaf,Tom has gone off westward out of DacotahTo the place where everyone waits for friends.Men grow taller, as the good old movies knew,When an October sun drops slowly downAnd shadows lengthen before the blizzard comes.The cocktail waitress knows better than to hustle,There are no themes to mark, wives never butt inOn the first line of a poetic meditation.Leaves turn the colour of beer, or that girl’s hair,Or a smoker’s index finger, or of jerky.Thos...