General John Bell Hood’s plan to revive the Confederacy's chances of victory in the US Civil War were crushed during the battle of Nashville, according to Stanley Horn.... Læs mere
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The poems in this collection cover thirty years of loving contact with the endlessly varied surfaces of the world. They are poems in which the common furniture of our lives is always present, in which the universal resides in the local, in which elegance is born of clarity.