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Crossing the Bar

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In his second collection, Crossing the Bar (1972), he was moved by the Vietnam War to protest against the inhumanity and irresponsibility of people in power. His later poetry collections include Quesada: Poems 1972–1974 (1975), Paris (1984), Between (1988), Voices (1990), Straw into
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