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“It’s been a long time since a collection has so affected me. Whether she is writing of our twisted relational lives or of her own seemingly innate sense that something’s wrong, Roma-Deeley writes with that curious blend of authority and self-doubt that marks our best poets. Ultimately, and reassuringly, she finds the affirmation that sustains her through it all; as her title poem urges, “having courage, let us write a word or phrase on the short list of certainties something that sounds very much like praise.” Which is just what she does in this tour de force.” – Sydney Lea, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and former Vermont Poet Laureate

The Short List of Certainties

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    A Paperback / softback by Lois Roma-Deeley

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      Publisher: Franciscan Academic Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/09/2017
      ISBN13: 9780996930550, 978-0996930550
      ISBN10: 0996930558

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      “It’s been a long time since a collection has so affected me. Whether she is writing of our twisted relational lives or of her own seemingly innate sense that something’s wrong, Roma-Deeley writes with that curious blend of authority and self-doubt that marks our best poets. Ultimately, and reassuringly, she finds the affirmation that sustains her through it all; as her title poem urges, “having courage, let us write a word or phrase on the short list of certainties something that sounds very much like praise.” Which is just what she does in this tour de force.” – Sydney Lea, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and former Vermont Poet Laureate

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