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Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes /

The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The shadows here are many--cancer, poverty, a lost love, famine, suicide, war, an ever-encroaching existential...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dumesnil, Cheryl (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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