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Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

Michael Donaghy

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Michael Donaghy

Michael Donaghy

Born: May 24, 1954
Died: September 16, 2004 (aged 50)
Bio: Michael Donaghy was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.
Known for:
  1. Collected poems
  2. The shape of the dance
  3. Dances Learned Last Night (2000)
  4. Conjure (2000)
  5. Neurology (1997)

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