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Louis Simpson

Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (March 27, 1923 – September 14, 2012) was a Jamaican poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road.

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    “My father in the night commanding No
    Has work to do.”
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    “In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
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