Lawrence Raab (born 1946 Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet.
He graduated from Middlebury College, in 1968 and from Syracuse University with an MA, in 1972. He taught at American University 1970-71, University of Michigan, and Williams College 1976 to present. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Even from the beach I could sense it—
lack of welcome, lack of abiding life,
like something in the air, a certain
lack of sound. Yesterday
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