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Rachel Rose is the author of The Octopus Has Three Hearts, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2021. As well, she is the author of four collections of poetry, including Marry & Burn, which received a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for a Governor General’s Award. Her memoir, The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops, was shortlisted for the 2018 Arthur Ellis award for best non-fiction crime book. A former fellow at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, she is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Vancouver and Co-Director of Vancouver Manuscript Intensive (https://vancouvermanuscriptintensive.... )
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Happy to see The Dog Lover Unit on the Iowa Prairie Progressive 2018 Summer Reading List! To read, please go to http://rachelsprose.weebly.com/my-blo...
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The Octopus Has Three Hearts
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Song and Spectacle
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“When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more,
And be happy.”
― Hafez
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“People often prefer to deny what is right before their eyes, especially if they can continue to hold on to what is in their hearts.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Liar
tags: denial, lies, truth
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