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The House of Straw

The House of Straw

Carmen Bugan

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2014
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781848613249
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Carmen Bugan is the author of the collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, the memoir Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police, and the monograph Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. The House of Straw is her second collection.

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