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Jim Smith
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Back Off, Assassin!: New & Selected Poems
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2009
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Leonel/Roque
by Jim Smith (Goodreads Author), Roque Dalton  4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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1998
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Translating sleep: A serial meditation on and by Alexander Graham Bell
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1989
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One Hundred Most Frightening Things
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1985
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Convincing Americans
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1986
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| An honest, heartfelt book. Patti has struggled to find how to tell the story of, then say goodbye to her young love. She's done it well. I found the final sections, when Robert is dying of AIDS, particularly human and heartfelt. | |
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| Anyone who has ever read a word of science fiction; anyone who ever knew, met, spoke with or was challenged by Judith Merril; anyone who wants to understand a beautiful, difficult, maddening and brilliant woman like Judy; anyone who wants to know fas...more | |
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| Just finished this dark and brooding and brilliant novel by a Basque writer, which explores the fate of a former ETA militant in 1982 Barcelona. Best book I have read this year, and I've just special ordered his The Accordionist's Son. For some reaso...more | |
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| this one changed my poetic life! | |
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| I was led to this book by my reading of poets who were influenced by Pound. And when I read it, a world opened up - Latin American poetry, poetry in translation, politically-engaged epic poetry. And the guy was a priest, for heaven's sake! This book...more | |
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