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Sister in a Different Movie

Sister in a Different Movie

Laura Foley

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Año de edición:
2026
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ISBN:
9781962405751
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Laura Foley is the author of eleven previous poetry collections including, most recently, Sledding the Valley of the Shadow, and Ice Cream for Lunch. She has won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, Common Good Books Poetry Prize, Poetry Box Editor’s Choice Chapbook Award, Bisexual Book Award, and others. Her work has been widely published in such journals as Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, American Life in Poetry, One Art, and anthologies such as How to Love the World and Poetry of Presence. She holds graduate degrees in Literature from Columbia University, and lives with her wife and their two romping canines on the steep banks of the Connecticut River in New Hampshire.

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