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The house is still standing is peopled with charlatans, gingerbread men, children, and savants the thousands and the particular. Adrienne Bartlett builds this nimble first collection with a supple craft. The poems deke and swerve, from the wry to the theatrical to the intimate.

Whether riffing on the secret identities of public intellectuals and pop icons or penning elegiac verse, Barrett''s voice is strong, anchored, inviting. Although she takes her readers through both substance / and its downfall, in the end, the structure is sound, she is holding up.

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      Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
      Publication Date: 23/04/2013
      ISBN13: 9780864929044, 978-0864929044
      ISBN10: 864929048
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      Book Synopsis

      The house is still standing is peopled with charlatans, gingerbread men, children, and savants the thousands and the particular. Adrienne Bartlett builds this nimble first collection with a supple craft. The poems deke and swerve, from the wry to the theatrical to the intimate.

      Whether riffing on the secret identities of public intellectuals and pop icons or penning elegiac verse, Barrett''s voice is strong, anchored, inviting. Although she takes her readers through both substance / and its downfall, in the end, the structure is sound, she is holding up.

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