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december 2003 - issue #74
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DuaneLockeDuane Locke, the Homeless poet
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...The bungalow in the backyard fell down. The second floor became the first floor. My car was crushed and destroyed. My priceless scholarly library is now under the debris. A book dealer is going to try to save some of the books from the debris, but in the future I will be almost bookless. When I need information, I will have to use the internet, or go to the library which never had a collection as good as I once had. I have swore that I will never buy another book. I will have depend primarily on the memory of my erudition....read the rest

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xmas3.gif - 7967 Bytescereally another year down the hill- thanks to all that have made this ezine and print journal into the empire it is -including poets, writers, photographers, artists, basinski who keeps us up to date with books reviews; co-editors, graphic designers, in da playpen directors, bukowski archives notwithstanding...all the readers that pass this way..
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december 2003

• The Whispering of Ice Cubes: New and Selected Pieces
- Rupert Wondolowski - Shattered Wig Press

• Vellum. Volume 2. Number 1.
- Editors Joshua Auerbach / Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach

• What Language- J. P. Dancing Bear - Slipstream Press

• Score. No. 18. - Editor: Crag Hill

• Greatest Hits: 1995-2003 -Series No. 197
- A. D. Winans - Pudding House Publications

• Poesy XXII. Fall 2003.
- C/o Brian Morrisey

• Buddha on Ice.
- Peshekee River Poetry No. 6. Tom Blessing.

• Drunk and Disorderly: Selected Poems (1978-2000)
- Alan Catlin - Pavement Saw Press

• The Latest News: A Native New Yorker’s Journey to Sept. 11
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