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BJ Omanson is a poet, historian and publisher who lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is the owner of Monongahela Books.

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	Stark County Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2017 — 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
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You Alone Are Real to Me: Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke (American Readers Series)

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Of all the writers of the Lost Generation, there was perhaps none quite so lost as John Allan Wyeth. Until his 1928 book of war poems was reprinted by Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli in 2008 (This Man's Army, Univ of SC Press), Wyeth’s literary r ...more
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"That Jared Carter, among living writers, is one of America’s premier regionalist poets is a claim few who know his work well would dispute. Yet describing any writer as regionalist in the second decade of the 21st century is in some ways problematic ...more
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