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Robert Lunday was born in 1958 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and raised mainly on Army posts here and there. He received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1980. After finishing a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Houston in 1985, he received a string of writer’s fellowships and residencies: two at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center (1986-87, 1988-89), one at the St. Albans School (Writer in Residence, 1987-88), and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University (1989-91). After briefly serving as the Writing Committee Coordinator at FAWC, newly married, he lived in Japan for three years, then returned to Houston to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Houston, finishing in 2002. While there, he received a Brazos Books ...more

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	Three Line Poetry #21 by Glenn Lyvers (Editor), April Zipser (Editor), A.J. Huffman (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 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
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The Literature of Disappearance: A Bibliography in Progress

Follow is my list of works – short fiction, novels, theory, criticism, memoir, general nonfiction, and contemporary poetry collections – that develop the trope of disappearance:

Plays

Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan and Other Plays [Mary Rose]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kennedy, Fin. How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. London: Nick Hearn Books, 2008.

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Bierce, Ambrose. The

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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