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Rich Ristow

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July 01, 1974 in Bittburg, Germany

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Lived in Germany, the UK, Belgium, Bermuda, The Netherlands, West Virginia, North Carolina, and, presently, New Jersey. MFA in Poetry from UNC-Wilmington. Won a 2007 Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Into The Cruel Sea (Skullvines, 2008) is my first bit of horror fiction.

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Average rating: 3.65 · 52 ratings · 21 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Into the Cruel Sea 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wood Life: A Poem 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Blight 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ted Chiang (Contributor), Kij Johnson (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Necon E-Books Flash Fiction Anthology: Best of 2011 by Bob Booth (Editor), Matt Bechtel (Editor), K. Allen Wood (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Into The Cruel Sea (Horror)

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The Everlasting

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The Nibelungenlied

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A Choir of Ill Children

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Rich gave to: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez	My rating:
Aug 29, 2011 10:17am
Rich made a comment in the group Literary Horror — Poets: topic "My goodreads poetry list is pretty exhaustive, if you're curious contemporary work. Could be a little more expansive, though. "
Feb 02, 2011 08:56pm
Rich gave to: The Selected Poetry by Yehuda Amichai	My rating:
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Rich gave to: The Body by Michael Benedikt	My rating:
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Rich gave to: The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the "Maximus" Poems by Charles Olson	My rating:
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Rich gave to: The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson	My rating:
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Rich gave to: Widowmaker's Apprentice by Steven Shrewsbury	My rating:
Brings a sense of brutal everyday life to fantasy. I would read more fantasy if it were like this.
Feb 01, 2011 08:34pm · see review
Rich made a comment in the group Literary Horror — How slighted is the horror genre in the literary world? topic "At least somebody murdered Hamlet's dad; he has somewhat of a better excuse to be a sniveling. And... I will have to look up that Moorcock story. "
Feb 01, 2011 08:29pm
Rich gave to: Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems by Samuel Menashe	My rating:
Somewhere between Williams and A.R. Ammons, but still a master of the short lyric.
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