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The Muted Blade

The Muted Blade

The Muted Blade

Jean Andrews

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Arima Publishing
Año de edición:
2017
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781845497125
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Many of these poems respond to current events of the past twenty years, others take a longer view, exploring how the past and the recent past resonate in the most mundane aspects of everyday life; a kind of condensed open conversation with the turbulent times we live in.

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