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1998 Ted Hughes’s “Perfect Light” is published.

1999 Ruth Stone’s “Ordinary Words” is published.

1999 Tony Hoagland’s “Social Life” is published.

1999 Marilyn Hacker’s “The Boy” is published.

2001 Ellen Bass’s “And What If I Spoke of De-

spair” is published.

2001 Jill Bialosky’s “Seven Seeds” is published.

2001 A. R. Ammons dies on February 25 in Ithaca,

New York.

Literary Chronology

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