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  <default_description>This award winning authors first full length collection includes narrative and often working class poems. Some of these first appeared in Blue Collar Review, Confrontation, Living Forge, Lumina, Miller&#8217;s Pond, Pearl, Plainsongs, Slipstream, The Sycamore Review, and The Same. Some of these poems also appeared in the Slipstream Chapbook Award collection _Some Days It&#8217;s A Love Story_, by Slipstream Press, 2005.
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    <body><![CDATA[A narrative collection of poems, one of the few books that have been published recently without all of the images stripped out by vagueness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Holy Habitation</strong><br/><br/>I read some of these poems in Jason's chapbook <em>Some Days It's a Love Story</em>; in this full-length collection, which won Pavement Saw's Transcontinental Poetry Award, the poems reappear with even greater force, partly due to the larger narrative of which they now form a part....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25679228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great poems about real life in a small town (though some of it is less specific to small-town-ness than one would think, and seems to ring true in Queens or Brooklyn too). <br/><br/>I've never been partial to narrative poems-- I always ideologically preferred poems with metaphysical whizbang, word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25574168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[can't wait to read this!! alright jason!]]></body>
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