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Postcards of the Poets

Postcards of the Poets

Geoff Peterson

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2026
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Postcards of the Poets is a collection inspired by the legacy of men and women who surrendered their days to the power of the written word. Old poems and notes for poems going back sixty years and found by the mischief of a pet cat, become the basis for these recollections.

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