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  <title><![CDATA[Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds (Pitt Poetry Series)]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Angela Ball&amp;rsquo;s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="”http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Dress+with+Books+on+it+is+too+Small.+(Poetry)-a0102023925”">The Dress with the Books on it is Too Small</a><br/><br/>Bone<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="”http://www.paperblog.fr/1069551/anthologie-permanente-angela-ball/”">What to Wear for a Divorce</a><br/><br/>Big Colt<br/>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Shappi, I think you'd like some of these.   Worth a library check-out or bookstore thumb-through.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really likeable colelction with some surprising turns and fresh images in the talky contemporary American surrealist vein.  A lot of the poems seem to lack the momentum that I crave these days, though. I think it's an issue of form-- in many cases, Ball puts one short phrase or clause on a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30708819">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wasn't sure if I liked these poems at first.  In fact, I couldn't find an entry into them at all.  Then, I don't know, I got in the swing of her.  The poems seem to bop all over the place, but then they have some unusual/startling imagery, and end revelations that I enjoyed.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These poems do &quot;bop&quot; all over the place, and that's what makes them so special and surprising.  They're witty and emotionally affecting and intelligent. I think this is Angela Ball's best book.]]></body>
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