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Aaron Fagan

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Aaron Fagan is the author of Garage (Salt Publishing, 2007), Echo Train (Salt Publishing, 2010), A Better Place Is Hard to Find (The Song Cave, 2020), Pretty Soon (Pilot Press, 2023), and Atom and Void (Princeton University Press, 2025). His chapbooks include Gunpowder (Sungrazer Press, 2005), Fishing with Electricity (Old Omen, 2022), and Failure Atlas (Greying Ghost, 2023). Poems of his have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Boulevard, Granta, Harper's, The Kenyon Review, Liberties, Literary Imagination, The London Magazine, The New Criterion, Poem-A-Day, Prelude, and The Yale Review. ...more

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Average rating: 4.53 · 81 ratings · 11 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Garage: Poems 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007	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
	Echo Train 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010	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
	A Better Place Is Hard to Find 4.64 avg rating — 14 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
	The Paradelle by Theresa Malphrus Welford (Editor), Aaron Fagan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Atom and Void: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 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
	Tuesday; An Art Project, Volume 3, Issue 1 by Jennifer S. Flescher (Editor), Dan Wood (Ink-Stained Wretch), Russell Bittner (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	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
	Pretty Soon 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2023	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
	Fishing with Electricity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Failure Atlas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2023	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
	Lost in the Throat 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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