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  Salman Rushdie

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  Allen Ginsberg

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  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
  
  His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
  
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  Mary Oliver

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  Philip Larkin

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  Miranda July

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  Casey McQuiston

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