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Eric Paul Shaffer
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in Bourne, MA, The United States
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Lew Welch, Richard Brautigan, Neil Young, Gary Snyder, Kurt Vonnegut,
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August 2008
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Eric Paul Shaffer
James was the last man on Earth. He really was.
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Portable Planet
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2000
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Lahaina Noon: Nā Mele O Maui: Poems
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2005
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Even Further West
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Burn & Learn: Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era
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2009
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Green Leaves: Selected & New Poems
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Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen
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2001
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RattleSnake Rider
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1990
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A Million-Dollar Bill
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Free Speech: poem sequences
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Kindling: Poems From Two Poets
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1988
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Ribs & Safer Roads
On Cinco de Mayo in 2020, I broke two ribs in a spectacular running accident.
For those short of memory, check out the original blog: https://www.ericpaulshaffer.com/blog/...
Man, that impact really hurt, and returning to the road took six weeks, and for a while, I had to walk!
Later that year, I was sitting in my driveway, and Natalia Hussey-Burdick, then campaigning to become the State Represent
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Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i
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| This is a re-read, but the elegant, little tale is worth many returns. As simple as a folktale and as well-boned and -built as the novel it is, everything about the book is worth much thought and admiration. Well done. Treat yourself to this tale as ...more | |
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| This book and all of Tolkien's work sounds so great aloud. I just wish people on the bus would relax and enjoy the fiction. I mean, I'm not preaching to a plane, at least. ...more | |
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Somehow, I managed to never read this book till this year. King is right; this book is one of the most deeply disturbing of his list. SPOILER: Not only killing a kid but bringing him back to life in your fiction and then killing the same kid again is ...more |
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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
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“What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
- Howl”
― Howl and Other Poems
- Howl”
― Howl and Other Poems
“Literature is news that stays news.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
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