Sandra Wassilie
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Born
November 13, 1946
Member Since
December 2008
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Vitriol No. 2
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The Dream That Is Childhood: A Memoir in Verse
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Writing without Walls: June 2012
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Writing without Walls:September 2013
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Writing Without Walls: "Intervention" May 2014
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"Okay, but I could see too much of the scaffolding showing through. The romantic love was inexplicable and overwraught."
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| Smith has a distinctive voice that reckons with pain and trauma at the visceral level with thoughtfulness. Her poems reflect one person’s lifetime of coping while remaining connected with the human condition of the many. A few convey an existential d ...more | |
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"Mammal is a wonder to read. These poems might as well be my friends. "Taking a Shit in an Airplane is Something" is something I loved to read after taking so many shits in airplanes. With verse, prose, ars poetica (Poem A - Poem Q is a great chapbook"
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"Accessible poems by a writer who knows her art. In "Couple," the author bemoans that having left bohemian poverty, she can't write a righteous poem because she's no longer marginalized. Full disclosure: I'm a friend and writing colleague of the autho"
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| I enjoyed this delightful exploration of infinity from when “a speck of nothing explodes” to “the family size infinity / whose rooms collect dust / galaxies composed / of mites and minute / particles of skin.” Lucille Lang Day involves the reader at ...more | |
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| A poet with a deep well, Frank testifies to the premise I hold that we exist in several dimensions at once. We walk, dance, or play music (often the cello) through history, myth, and cosmic forces in many of her plain spoken verses. We learn memory a ...more | |
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| Highly readable novel of an Indian family of several generations set mostly in southern India in Madras but also touching on the United States in San Francisco. I appreciate the skill with which Murthi weaves multiple characters through different tim ...more | |
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| Highly readable novel of an Indian family of several generations set mostly in southern India in Madras but also touching on the United States in San Francisco. I appreciate the skill with which Murthi weaves multiple characters through different tim ...more | |
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