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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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Tina's review
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Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11:
"I have heard and read so many things about 9/11, but always from the point of view of the first responders and the victims, I thought this was a great idea for a book.
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution:
"I received an advance reading copy (arc) of this book from NetGalley.com in return for a fair review. When we think of slavery, the 1800s normally come to mind. David George, however, lived during the time of the Revolutionary War. His story is consi"
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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.
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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
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Opening Round
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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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