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Eric Paul Shaffer is author of ten volumes of poetry. In the current twenties are Second Nature, Free Speech, and Green Leaves: Selected & New Poems. In the teens were Even Further West (Unsolicited Press, 2018) and A Million-Dollar Bill (Grayson Books, 2016; Coyote Arts, 2024). In the oughts, Lāhaina Noon: Nā Mele O Maui; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; and Portable Planet. As long ago as the previous millennium were RattleSnake Rider and Kindling: Poems from Two Poets (with James Taylor III).

Second Nature, due momentarily, is a single poetry volume of sixty poems previously published individually in reviews of the past decades.

Nearly seven hundred individual poems appear in venues throughout the world, including Slate, No ...more

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	Portable Planet 4.57 avg rating — 14 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
	Even Further West it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 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
	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
	Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001	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
	RattleSnake Rider 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990	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
	A Million-Dollar Bill it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 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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	Kindling: Poems From Two Poets it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988	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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Man, that impact really hurt, and returning to the road took six weeks, and for a while, I had to walk!

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