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    Cabinet of Fossils: Poems of Politics & Protest
    Cabinet of Fossils: Poems of Politics & Protest
    Cabinet of Fossils: Poems of Politics & Protest
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    Cabinet of Fossils: Poems of Politics & Protest

    By Carl Bettis

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    Poems of politics and protest from a liberal/progessive viewpoint, written before, during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "Every library needs an artillery shell lamp. / Not because books are weapons. (But sometimes they are.) / No. Because, let authors write books on books on books, / the shells always come in. No scribe / will scribble the savage out of us."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaracabe Things
    Release dateJan 21, 2019
    ISBN9780463117156
    Cabinet of Fossils: Poems of Politics & Protest
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    Carl Bettis

    Carl Bettis is a software developer and writer in Kansas City, Missouri, where he lives with his wife, their daughter, and a variable number of pets. His works have appeared in such periodicals as Thorny Locust, Daily Science Fiction, Paper + Ink and I-70 Review, as well as the anthologies Chance of a Ghost, 365 Days, 365 Days: Vol. 2, Quick Shivers from the Midwest and The Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers. He is an associate editor for The Same literary magazine and is a member of the Riverfront Readings Committee.

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