Books, Inq. — The Epilogue

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The residue of intensity …

… on Robert Duncan, The Ambassador From Venus, a biography by Lisa Jarnot (University of California Press) | On the Seawall: A Literary Website by Ron Slate (GD).
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