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Robert Sward Biography and Poems

Robert Sward Biography and Poems. This is biographical information on Robert Sward, one of the best poets of all time. This biography page also provides a link to poems written by Sward, as well as, a video biography...if available.

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Robert Sward (born 1933) is an American and Canadian poet and novelist. Jack Foley, in his Introduction to Sward's Collected Poems, 1957-2004 (Black Moss Press, 2004) calls him, "in truth, a citizen, at heart, of both countries. At once a Canadian and American poet, one with a foot in both worlds, Sward also inhabits an enormous in-between." Or, as Rainer Maria Rilke puts it, "Every artist is born in an alien country; he has a homeland nowhere but within his own borders.". American and Canadian poet and novelist

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