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TODAY’S FEATURED POET

Edgar Bowers

Edgar Bowers

Edgar Bowers was born in Rome, Georgia, and educated at Stanford University. There he studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters, who influenced Bowers's deft use of rhyme and traditional forms, as seen in the poem, "A Poet Orders His Tomb."

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The Poet Orders His Tomb
by Edgar Bowers

I summon up Panofskv from his bed
    Among the famous dead
To build a tomb which, since I am not read,
Suffers the stone’s mortality instead;

Which, by the common iconographies
    Of simple visual ease,
Usurps the place of the complexities
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