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B.J. Ward’s Followers (19)
B.J. Ward
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American Appetites
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1989
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37 editions
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George Washington's Mother
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1992
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13 editions
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Gravedigger's Birthday: Poems
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published
2002
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Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013 (Io Poetry Series)
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2013
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3 editions
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17 Love Poems with No Despair
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published
1997
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Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands
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1994
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Shut Down Strangers & Hot Rod Angels: an anthology inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen
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Farty Marty
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“As hard as the diamonds in your smile,
the wind carries its hammers with no hands
and sustains a moan with no mouth,
seems to cradle solitude in its rough arms like firewood
to be burned in my house as it passes through
and asks, “Where does she sparkle from?”
― Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013
the wind carries its hammers with no hands
and sustains a moan with no mouth,
seems to cradle solitude in its rough arms like firewood
to be burned in my house as it passes through
and asks, “Where does she sparkle from?”
― Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013
“These words are my mother’s,
my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage
man’s—the poem runs
like oil on fire
beneath this earth where we know each other.
Witness the black smoke everywhere.”
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my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage
man’s—the poem runs
like oil on fire
beneath this earth where we know each other.
Witness the black smoke everywhere.”
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“A man awakes every morning
and instead of reading the newspaper
reads Act V of Othello.
He sips his coffee and is content
that this is the news he needs
as his wife looks on helplessly.”
― Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013
and instead of reading the newspaper
reads Act V of Othello.
He sips his coffee and is content
that this is the news he needs
as his wife looks on helplessly.”
― Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013
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