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Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

by Richard Brautigan · 1976

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" ... delicate, full of insight and the ability to see and describe the possibilities and complications of the world in a lucid and totally original way ..."

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Setting
1970s
Audience
adult
Form
poetry

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