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  <name><![CDATA[R.D. Armstrong]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[RD Armstrong has been writing since high school, but it has only been in the last sixteen years that he has been his most consistent and prolific. Besides writing poetry and short fiction, he is also the publisher of the Little Red Book series (59 titles and counting)and for 11 years published the Lummox Journal, a small print digest of the literary arts.  Many of the titles are available on the Lummox Press website.

In 2008 RD decided to publish a four volume collection of his best work: Fire and Rain - Selected Poems 1993-2007 Vols. 1 &amp; 2; On/Off the Beaten Path - 3 Long Road Poems; and El Pagano and Other Twisted Tales (short stories).

Lummox Press also plans to publish a Best of the Little Red Books collection early in 2009, as well as, a collection of essays and a passage from The Name is Dillinger by Todd Moore.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Todd Moore, Jay Alamares]]></influences>    <hometown>Lafayette</hometown>  <born_at>02/02/1951</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fire and Rain Selected Poems 1993-2007 Vol. 1]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[On/Off the Beaten Path]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[R.D. Armstrong]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Hunger]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[R.D. Armstrong]]></name>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[R.D. Armstrong]]></name>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[RoadKill]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[R.D. Armstrong]]></name>
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