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"Turning Eighty: A Birthday Poem"

By David FerryPosted Monday, Dec. 27, 2004, at 12:10 PM ET

It is a breath-taking near-death experience.








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David Ferry is a poet, a translator of poetry, and a professor of English at Wellesley College.
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