Kathleen Rooney
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Born
Beckley, West Virginia, The United States
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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2017
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Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
7 editions
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2020
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Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object
6 editions
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2009
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Robinson Alone
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2012
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For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs
8 editions
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2009
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O, Democracy!
3 editions
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2014
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Oneiromance
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2008
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America
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2005
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Where Are the Snows: Poems
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After Robinson Has Gone
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2011
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"It is not easy to see. Outside the theatre, living as we do, most of us see very little with our eyes wide open. In action the eye absorbs space forms to function; in repose the eye becomes a facial decoration as sight turns inward. And our training ...more | |
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That little note he wrote me knowing that I'm moving soon to New York to sit at a desk to make rich people richer and maybe siphon money away from palcces like the Continent that I was born in and that Mahid's parents were born in and -- (75) ...more |
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Something in the metaphor of the bow Which is never close enough to see the arrow Hit its mark. I remain a mystery to my father. My father remains a mystery to me. Christianity is a religion built around a father Who does not rescue his son. It is the s ...more |
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"My Family cannot ejaculate into the cup. He can ejaculate into me. But not in the cup. The disappointments are eating her alive, nothing can be controlled anymore. If you run out of champagne at your wedding, send your brother to the store. If rent g ...more |
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"I am bias because I published this book. It’s beautiful and strange and tragic and funny and has pictures of a cyst removal in it. "
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WHAT CAN WE CALL IT You can't stop someone from adding an s to a word. Loves. Depressions. Deaths. Griefs. Gods. Most of the time, the plural of something is worse. (45) Sadness takes time. Sadness is made up of minutes. Hope is made up of years. (112) There ...more |
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"Right away: I thought the incident in the big pocket would take up more space. But it was heartbreaking and shocking nonetheless.
The story is told alternating between the POV of Cher Ami and Charles Whittlesey and how they both find themselves at the" Read more of this review » |
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"For those who love NYC this is a walk down memory lane. "
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“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.”
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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