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A Thaw Foretold

Mike Barnes

Publisher: Biblioasis

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Summary

Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and particular, embracing both colloquial directness and formal elegance, the poems confront the elementals of love and loss, mortality and remembrance.
Available since: 10/16/2012.

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