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    Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
    Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
    Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
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    Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced

    By Catherine Barnett

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    Winner of the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award. Moving but unsentimental treatment of a powerful subject gives this book wide appeal. Good potential for adoption by reading groups and bereavement support groups. This lyric collection is unusual in that it has a suspenseful narrative structure, building to a tragic revelation. Author teaches writing to women in the shelter system. Author is well-connected in New York publishing world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlice James Books
    Release dateMay 30, 2016
    ISBN9781938584886
    Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
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    Catherine Barnett

    Catherine Barnett is the author of a previous poetry book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced. She has received a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.

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