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Wistful, wry, at times valedictory (the Monet poem playfully offers the poet's own epitaph), The Bounty is one of Walcott's most inviting volumes, incorporating some of his best work since The Star-Apple Kingdom of 1979.
Henry Kissinger is quoted in the LAT epitaph saying of Ehrlichman that "he was a victim of the Vietnam War and a tough-guy atmosphere in the Nixon White House."
Perhaps the most acute epitaph of the Cold War was written at its birth, by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who objected to U.S. demands for "an open door" for its industrialists throughout Europe: "We would probably live to see the day when in your own country, on switching on the radio, you would be hearing not so much your own language as one American gramophone record after [another] ...
It's sad to think that the epitaph on countless headstones over the next few decades will have this postscript: "I might have lived a full life if Bill had decided to retire just a bit earlier."
To hear Robert Pinsky read "Epitaph on a Hare,", click .