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WesternS o l s t i c e
L e o n or e Wi l s o n
HIRAETH PRESS
Dav, Maachu
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Cpygh © 2011 L W
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PO Bx 416,
Dav, MA 01923
F Ed 2011
Cv ad x dg by Ja Kky
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ISBN: 978-0-9835852-1-3
Pm m h cc hav pvuy appad : Pedestal , The Misft Library, Blue FithReview , Conte , The Benicia Herald , Women’s Art Quarterly Journal , A Prairie Journal , Written
River , Prism Review , The Prose-Poem Project , Innisree Poetry, Trivia: Voices o Feminism, Chopin
with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse , Identity Theory, Ascent Aspirations Magazine , Rock and Sling ,
The Furnace Review , Press 1, Slow Trains Literary Journal , Poetry Super Highway, Rattle , Red
Wheelbarrow , Squaw Valley Community o Writers Review , Arts Council Napa Valley, Wild Earth,
Quarterly West , Chrysalis Reader , Mayday Magazine , Manzanita Review , Madison Review , Third
Coast , 2RiverReview , Reed , Nimble Spirit , Poets Against the War (Sam Hamil Anthology), Writers
o the Wine Country (Heyday Press), Charon Review , Yellow Silk, Magma, Boxcar Poetry Review ,
Haight and Ashbury Review , X-Connect , 13th Moon, Umbrella, Fringe , Small Pond , Heyoka, The Adirondack Review , Ascent , Poems or All , Wicked Alice , LanguageandCulture.net , Terrain, Poets
West , Wild Apples, Mississippi Crow , English Journal
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The Spring-Bringers or Susan Edwards Richmond
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Tomoko Uemura is Bathed by Her Mother ater a photograph by W. Eugene Smith
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Theotokas
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Western Solstice
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My Country
“Tere are roads to take when you think of your country.”
—Muriel Rukeyeser
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World as Church
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About the Author
Leonore Wison has taught at various universities and colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area.She continues to live on her family cattle ranch in Napa, California. She has won fellowships
to the University of Utah and Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts. Her work has been in such
magazines as Quarterly West , Madison Review, Tird Coast , Poets Against the War , Nimble Spirit ,
and rivia: Voices of Feminism. She is the mother of three sons.
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