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The Mirrormaker - Poems

Brian Laidlaw

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

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Summary

Author has been widely published, including in New American Writing, Iowa Review, FIELD, and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral
Author is also a musician whose lyric work has been included in American Songwriter magazine, and with a songwriting credit on the Grammy Award-winning album Can You Canoe? by the Okee Dokee Brothers
We expect strong blurbs, reviews, and ordering from the poetry community as a result of the author’s network of supporters
Book is a companion collection to author’s earlier collection, The Stuntman, which was reviewed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Coal Hill Review
Available since: 10/09/2018.

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