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Eric Paul Shaffer is author of nine volumes of poetry. Most recent are Free Speech, published April 1, 2025, and Green Leaves: Selected & New Poems, published on Hallowe'en in 2023. Even Further West was published in 2018 by Unsolicited Press, and A Million-Dollar Bill was published by Grayson Books in 2016 and re-published by Coyote Arts in January 2024. Other volumes include Lāhaina Noon: Nā Mele O Maui; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; Portable Planet; RattleSnake Rider; and Kindling: Poems from Two Poets (with James Taylor III).

Shaffer's next book of poetry Second Nature is a single poetry volume of fifty-seven poems previously published individually in reviews of the past decades. The book will be published in 2026.

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	Portable Planet 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000 — 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
	Lahaina Noon: Nā Mele O Maui: Poems 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005	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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	Burn & Learn: Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era 4.33 avg rating — 9 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
	Green Leaves: Selected & New Poems 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
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