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George’s 2025 Year in Books
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
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Does She Have a Name?
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The Apparitioners
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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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nature,
environment,
death-and-dying,
grief-and-healing,
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relationships
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George Witte
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Mike's review
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution:
"First,a HUGE thank you to St. Martin’s Press, Gregory O’Malley, and NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book which allows me to provide an honest review.
This book initially interested me because I am a big history nerd. Especially when it comes t" Read more of this review » |
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Orsayor's review
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution:
"The Escapes of David George by Gregory E O’Malley is a moving and important history book that brings attention to a life often left out of stories about the American Revolution. Instead of focusing on well-known founders, the book tells the story of "
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Janine's review
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution:
"Interesting historical account of a black man, David George, evading capture by his slave owner and pursuing freedom, establishing the first black Baptist church and eventually ending up in Sierra Leone. The timing of the escape is pre-revolutionary "
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Steve's Book Stuff's review
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution:
"Gregory O’Malley, the author of The Escapes of David George is a professor of history who specializes in slavery and the slave trade in colonial British America and the Caribbean, He weaves a compelling book out of the slim story of the life of David"
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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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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