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Terese Svoboda has published 19 books of fiction, poetry, memoir and biography. Svoboda's writing has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, BOMB, Columbia, Yale Review, and the Paris Review. She lives in New York. ...more

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	Bohemian Girl 3.25 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2011 — 6 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
	Trailer Girl and Other Stories 3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	Roxy and Coco 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan 3.61 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Great American Desert: Stories 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2019 — 3 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
	Dog on Fire 3.38 avg rating — 39 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
	Pirate Talk or Mermalade 3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 7 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
	Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 7 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
	Tin God 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2006 — 8 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
	Weapons Grade: Poems 3.72 avg rating — 18 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

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I found an old Horizon magazine in a closet of my childhood home, the image of a sort of flying goose with a woman at the helm, enough to mesmerize a child, let alone a woman who celebrates whatever feminism she can get. My mother was dying and querulous as she was, I was trying to get purchase on what made up the marriage that begat myself and eight others. Plus--what about the future? What about Read more of this blog post »

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Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation/Actos Fatales De Traduccion Norte-Sur

by Marta E. Savigliano

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Terese Svoboda said: " an opera-narrative in Spanish/English with cartoons about being female in two worlds "

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How the Dead Dream

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I've been reading Challender's work for decades and Masters of War is his masterpiece. His ancestor's Civil War experiences in conversation with his own service in the 1970s skillfully compressed via sonnet and blank verse and other formal furnaces m ...more
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