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208:"I am troubled at night", "In November the cold waterbirds", "Lily-poem", "San Cristobal", "There was a wall about him", "The days fall off like little leaves", "This hard mirror is a record", "Sheaf of images". Poems edited by Erik La Prade appearing in the article "Kathleen Tankersley Young".
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Coulter Young on February 1, 1921. This first marriage ended when Henry Coulter Young died of tuberculosis in February, 1925. Kathleen Tankersley Young later married Air Force Lieutenant David Jerome Ellinger in 1929.
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Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little
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