American Book Award

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    Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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    A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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