Phyllis Klein

    I wrote this poem after reading an article in the New York Times about these letters unearthed in an office in Taiwan sixty years after they were written. The authors were political prisoners executed for speaking out against the government. It Should Be Me Who is Looking After You         …

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This poem tells the story of my search for the copyright permission to use the quotes from the letters written by prisoners in It Should Be Me Who is Looking After You. Crossing the Watersfor Billy Kwok The evening I called Hong Kong, it was warmfor February in San Francisco. You were in the morningsun, …

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