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  <title><![CDATA[Viva Loss]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;Sarah Fran Wisby's fables and speculations have an unguarded quality--they are without prudery or self-protection. Her book, VIVA LOSS, is harsh, juicy, learned, and tender. But the loss in the title turns to wonder as Wisby surprises us with the truth--that is, what can be said--about ourselves&quot;--Robert Gluck</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sarah Fran Wisby]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[from, &quot;High Drama,&quot; the first poem in this great book with the best title ever:<br/>&quot;What if you were dying, and I came to you with my hair down, my mouth soft, my axis stilled, and you knew there wasn't time to find anyone better, who shared your taste in movies and alcohol, who wasn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40602331">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 21:09:38 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This little book is filled with big prose poems that all seem to contain a sudden and dramatic twist (just one in most cases). <br/><br/>This book is one part high drama, one part sad, one part guts and gore and two parts forgettable as soon as you read it. <br/><br/>Still, I recommend it as it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47850166">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The world's tallest trees are underwater where gravity can't get to them. They reach for a greenish blob of light, the mythical sun, which none have lived to set free of its wavering veil, for as soon as they puncture the surface, they are painfully burned on their uppermost new and tender lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43560289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book isn't very long so i'm only reading a page here and there to savor it longer....which means i like it. really deep shit with an awesome cover.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just didn't take much away from this collection. I laughed a few times, and the poems flowed well, they just didn't leave much of an impression on me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sarah Fran, how did you know exactly how to write about the luminescence of boys?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a few years ago i was swept up at a sfw reading and i tucked her name away. so glad i did! <br/><br/>&quot;what is pleasure if it leads us here?&quot; word.]]></body>
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