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Joe Milazzo is the author of the novel Crepuscule W/ Nellie and two volumes of poetry: The Habiliments and Of All Places In This Place Of All Places. He co-edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing] and is also the proprietor of Imipolex Press. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX.

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	Crepuscule W/Nellie: a novel (#RECURRENT, #1) by Joe Milazzo (Goodreads Author), Janice Lee (Goodreads Author) (Designer) 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Of All Places In This Place Of All Places 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2018	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 Habiliments 4.86 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
	Dirty: Dirty by Greg Bachar, Elizabeth Burns, Jennifer Calkins (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	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 Terraces 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	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
	[out of nothing] #0: Theoretical Perspectives on the Substance Preceding by Janice Lee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Lindley (Editor), Christ Sylvester (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	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
	Wounded Unwound: 25 Expandable Points Towards a Literature of Violence it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	From Beings Things, To Equalities In All it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2019 — 2 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
	Words in Danger of Falling out of the Vocabulary by Eric Lindley, Joe Milazzo (Goodreads Author), Miwa Matreyek (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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A new edition of CREPUSCULE W/ NELLIE

A new, revised edition of Crepuscule W/Nellie is coming February 2018 from Civil Coping Mechanisms.

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Published on January 20, 2018 07:08 • Tags: african-american-studies, jazz, literary-fiction, novel

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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe

by Paul F. Berliner

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Sens-Plastique

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