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Fritz Ward

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Fritz Ward is the author of Tsunami Diorama (The Word Works, 2017) and Doppelgänged (Blue Hour Press, 2011). He is a recipient of the Cecil Hemly Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, His poems have been featured in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Blackbird, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He lives just outside of Philadelphia and works at Swarthmore College.

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	Tsunami Diorama 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tuesday; An Art Project, Volume 3, Issue 1 by Jennifer S. Flescher (Editor), Dan Wood (Ink-Stained Wretch), Russell Bittner (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doppelgänged 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salt Hill 16 (Summer 2004) by Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University (Editor), JoAnn Balingit (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Amy Beeder (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gihon River Review, Spring 2004 - Place Issue (Volume 5) by Alan Catlin, Mary Mclaughlin Slechta, Jill Stephenson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A DESCRIPTION OF HAPPINESS IN KOBENHAVN

All this windless day snow fell
into the King's Garden
where I walked, perfecting and growing old,
abandoning one by one everybody:
randomly in love with the paradise
furnace of my mind. Now I sit in the dark,
dreaming of a marble sun
and its strictness. This
is to tell you I am not coming back.
To tell you instead of my private life
among people who must wrestle their hearts
in order to feel anything, as though it were
unnatural. What I master by day
still lapses in the night. But I go on
with the cargo cult, blindly feeling the snow
come down, learning to flower by tightening.”
― Jack Gilbert

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