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That's the late Stanley Kunitz taking a break at Poet's House in Manhattan. He happens to stop and pause beneath Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man," which has been inscribed on the large window. Ah, juxtaposition!
Finally, then! An answer to the darkly imponderable Creeley question:
the darkness sur-
rounds us, what
can we do against
itThe answer is:
Stanley Kunitz!