Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest poetry collection is Walking on Darkness. He also translated, with Czelaw Milosz, Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, and with Milosz and Alissa Valles, The Collected Poems: 1956–1998 by Zbigniew Herbert.

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Why didn’t I just say / people like us here / at this table / should not just talk about politics

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