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An Atlas of the Difficult World

In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.

Genre
LGBTlesbian
Setting
1990s
Subject
politics
Audience
adult
Length
short · 72 pages
Form
poetry

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