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  <name><![CDATA[Diane Wood Middlebrook]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Anne Sexton: A Biography]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gin Considered As a Demon (Elysian Press poetry series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Diane Wood Middlebrook]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (A Norton paperback)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens]]></title>
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