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The Donner Party

By George Keithley

George Braziller, Inc.

The Donner Party is one of the three or four finest book-length American poems ever written.”—Poetry. “Out of the western migration of the 1840s…Keithley has made a lean, taut narrative poem that moves with the speed and terseness of a killer shark.”—The New York Times. “Keithley’s account of the Donner tragedy is a major event in American letters.”—X.J. Kennedy.

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To Be To Is To Was

By Stephen C. Bird

Sunnie Deelite and Isabella Gloucester forge their creative identities while fending off the torments of illusory love. Amourrica Profunda transforms into Mourrzicka and finally into Isolamicka. Turmerico Inflammatorio wreaks havoc as the leader of turbulent Isolamicka. Humans escape the dying Blue Green Planet to start anew on Planet Gorp. In the Androgynous Galaxy, intergalactic witches battle for supremacy.

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A Ballroom Called the Universe (Dancing with the Higher Energies of Life)

By Anne M. Ehmann

Balboa Press

The poems contained within reflect upon life’s vicissitudes. The author touches on topics such as early childhood memories, holidays, love, nature,

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