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anonymous
in
Running in the Family
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The anonymous poets returned again and again to the same metaphors.
p. 84.5 *

anonymous = lacking individuality or interesting features
The artist is anonymous.
p. 85.3 *

anonymous = of unknown identity
And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, the harbour road and its ship chandlers, soap makers, ice on bicycles, the hidden anonymous barber shops behind the pink dirt walls of Reclamation Street.
p. 133.2

anonymous = lacking distinctiveness or interesting features
Automatically as I travel on the tug with my brother-in-law, a pilot in the harbour, I sing "the lights in the harbour don't shine for me …." but I love it here, skimming out into the night anonymous among the lazy commerce, my nieces dancing on the breakwater as they wait, the lovely swallowing of thick night air as it carves around my brain, blunt, cleaning itself with nothing but this anonymity, with the magic words.
p. 134.2

anonymous = unknown
The visions which are anonymous.†
p. 85.8

Definitions:

(1) (anonymous as in: an anonymous author)
an unknown person, or of an unknown person -- such as an unknown author, or donation of an unknown person
(2) (anonymous as in: an anonymous, uninteresting house)
lacking individuality or interesting features
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)