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New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte.Every day,Every day,Tell the hoursBy their shadows,By their shadows.Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Vassar College, where she was class poet three years in a row. After graduating, Crapsey taught history \u0026amp; literature at Kemper Hall in Wisconsin, and then studied at the School of Archaeology in Rome.I knowNot these my handsAnd I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.Around this time, she began writing 'free verse', drawing inspiration from the French 'vers libre', Japanese hokku and tanka, and the work of Yone Noguchi, among other things. 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