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George’s 2025 Year in Books
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George Witte
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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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2 editions
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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...
George Witte
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bookshelves:
poetry,
family,
nature,
environment,
death-and-dying,
grief-and-healing,
currently-reading,
relationships
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George Witte
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2 other people
liked
Alisha's review
of
The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest:
"A gripping exploration of the 1924 attempt to summit Everest! I practically couldn't stop reading this one. The early chapters detailing what led up to the trip are interspersed with others that give a biographical look at Sandy Irvine's life. This w"
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George Witte
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chamelodius's review
of
The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest:
"On the whole an interesting and very thorough treatment of the famous "mystery" of Mallory and Irvine's disappearance on Mt Everest. Quite a few years ago I read a lot of mountineering/adventure narratives, kicked off by a fascination with Krakauer's"
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"Fascinating, quick look at the military, aviation, and national security side of 9/11. Had no idea there was a probable 5th plane on the hijack list, as it was not reported in any of the other 8 million books I have read on 9/11, so now I have someth"
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"This book was fantastic and filled with many, many things I didn’t know. Of course, I know exactly where I was when it happened, but didn’t understand what was happening behind the scenes. It’s filled with so many prospectives, so many behind the sce"
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George Witte
voted for
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
as
Readers' Favorite History & Biography
in the
Opening Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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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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— last activity Jul 11, 2016 07:14AM
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