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Posted: **April 23rd, 2024, 9:15 am**

I received a private message regarding a specific poem - but I haven't been able to find it. My guess is it's not in the public domain, but maybe someone else can locate it and find out when it was first published?

Hello;

I'm looking for a poem titled Will. This poem was in my Literature book, Literature The Human Experience, in the early 1980's. The current version of this book does not have this poem. I have search online and nothing...You mind to ask your sources?
This poem is about a person's will to live. It is regarding suicide, and how some suicide victims are found, while others who are living life have their lives cut short.

thanks

Posted: **April 23rd, 2024, 9:47 am**

There's a 1986 edition on Archive: https://archive.org/details/literaturehumane2051222abca

but I don't find a poem titled "Will" in there. The other editions on Archive are all later.

Posted: **April 29th, 2024, 10:54 pm**

This poem, by a reasonably well-known female American poet who was sometimes included in anthologies, is entitled "Will." It doesn't seem to apply to suicides directly.

I'll keep looking. I have a few older anthologies of poetry in my collection.

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/a-library-of-american-literature/will/

Posted: **May 2nd, 2024, 3:29 am**

Thank you, Kevin! I will pass this on, just in case!

Posted: **May 11th, 2024, 5:02 am**

I found it, in the 1980 volume of Literature....

Author Maxine Kumin, born 1925

I'll PM it to Rapunzelina.
Peter

Posted: **May 11th, 2024, 10:13 am**

Thank you so much Peter!

This means that the poem is not in the public domain, but at least the question is resolved!

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