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Lola Haskins

  • To play pianissimo / is to carry sweet words / to the old woman in the last dark row / who cannot hear anything else, / and to lay them across her lap like a shawl.

    • Lola Haskins,
    • "To Play Pianissimo," in Emilie Buchwald and Ruth Roston, eds., Mixed Voices ()
  • He would dream / of his piano as if it were flesh.

    • Lola Haskins,
    • "The Prodigy," in Emilie Buchwald and Ruth Roston, eds., Mixed Voices ()

Lola Haskins, U.S. poet