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Waiting for the King of Spain

poetry by Wakoski

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In Diane Wakoski
” Waiting for the King of Spain (1976) concerns an imaginary monarch. The Collected Greed: Parts 1–13 (1984), in which “greed” is defined as “failing to choose,” contains previously published as well as unpublished poetry.
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