Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse
Using a wide variety of poetic forms – quatrains, ballads, iambic meter, rhyming lists, concrete poetry, tercets and free verse –this debut author tells the story of a nine-year-old boy’s day of fishi…
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look like a poem
when you see it
typed up
like that."
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