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composer/pianist Bernadette Speach

Bright Life, Animal Heart Author|Roy M. Close The images presented in thisIf you've ever known the weariness of the hustle, the adjunct gig, the diminishing gaze, then you know how crucial it is to find the poems that break your world wide open again. I'm grateful to Laura Minor for startling images such as "The ocean elopes from my arms," and for inviting me to keep company with people who go hard, "know the sadism of several martinis," and do their dishes in the bathtub. Bright Life, Animal Heart is graced by the patron