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  <name><![CDATA[Theodore Roethke]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking. Roethke wrote of his poetry: The greenhouse &quot;is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven-on-earth.&quot; Roethke drew inspiration from his childhood experiences of working in his family's Saginaw floral company. Beginning is 1941 with Open House, the distinguished poet and teacher published extensively, receiving a Pulitzer Prize for poetry and two National Book Awards among an array of honors. In 1959 Yale University awarded him the prestigious Bollingen Prize. Roethke taught at Michigan State College, (present-day Michigan State University) and at colleges in Pennsylvania and Vermont, before joining the faculty of the University of Washington at Seattle in 1947. ]]></about>      <hometown>Saginaw, Michigan</hometown>  <born_at>05/25/1908</born_at>  <died_at>08/01/1963</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems: Selected Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Far Field]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[On Poetry and Craft]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Waking]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dirty Dinky and Other Creatures: Poems for Children]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hammond World Atlas]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[My Papa's Waltz]]></title>
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