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B.A. Van Sise is an author and photographic artist with three monographs: the visual poetry anthology Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry with Mary-Louise Parker, Invited to Life: After the Holocaust with Neil Gaiman and On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues with DeLanna Studi and Linda Hogan. His artwork has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Center for Creative Photography, the Skirball Cultural Center, the Woody Guthrie Center, and the Rockefeller Arts Center, as well as in group exhibitions at the Peabody Essex Museum, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Los Angeles Center of Photography and the Whitney Museum of American Art; a number of his portraits of American poets are in the perma ...more

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	On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues by B.A. Van Sise (Goodreads Author), Crisosto Apache (Goodreads Author) (contributor), DeLanna Studi (contributor) 4.86 avg rating — 29 ratings	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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	Invited to Life: Finding Hope after the Holocaust by B.A. Van Sise (Goodreads Author), Mayim Bialik (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings	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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