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George Witte
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Summit, New Jersey, The United States
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James Applewhite, Fred Chappell, Robert Frost, Philip Larkin
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
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2017
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Does She Have a Name?
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2014
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The Apparitioners
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2005
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Deniability
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2009
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An Abundance of Caution
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2023
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The Secret Alphabet
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New poems in Revel 3
The beautiful new issue of Revel 3 is just out, with an array of poems, prose, and art. I'm proud to have two poems included in such company. Well worth subscribing to this award-winning journal: https://www.unboundedition.com/produc...
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"Taylor remains a master craftsman of well written and researched fiction. This story sucked me in like so many of his, with an ending that comes with breakneck speed after a detailed and engrossing build up. One-Eleven is the spirit animal we all nee"
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"Wolvers isn't a book I would normally pick up and read, but I'm glad I gave it a chance. One-Eleven is a cunning wolf who is as much of a character in this novel as the hunters who are trying to track her down. Trace is a down-on-his-luck rancher who"
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Wow! This book is as impressive as it is informative! One-Eleven is an alpha female wolf in the Gila Wilderness--the oldest designated area where nothing mechanized is allowed. Two humans are introduced: Trace and Murdock; each have different motives" Read more of this review » |
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"Wolvers by new to me author Taylor Brown, published by St. Martin's Press, is full length, stand alone, general fiction novel.
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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“There's something to be said, and something else
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
“we learn
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
“No photograph records
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
“And when undone or desperate, alone,
beset by others' hungers and my own,
to speak inaudibly and still be heard.
From "Wish List”
― An Abundance of Caution
beset by others' hungers and my own,
to speak inaudibly and still be heard.
From "Wish List”
― An Abundance of Caution
“There's something to be said, and something else
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
“we learn
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
“No photograph records
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
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