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Christina M. Rau is the author of the 2021 poetry collection What We Do To Make Us Whole, the 2018 Elgin Award winning poetry collection, Liberating The Astronauts ( Aqueduct Press, 2017). Her poetry chapbooks include WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). She serves as Poet In Residence at Oceanside Library and was Poet of the Year at Walt Whitman Birthplace. She is the founder of the Long Island reading circuit Poets In Nassau, and she has shared her poetry in readings and workshops across the U. S. Her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show and on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project. She teaches English at Nassau Community College where she also serv ...more

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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War

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