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    A Run at the Moon
    A Run at the Moon
    A Run at the Moon
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    A Run at the Moon

    By Jean Sheppard

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    A dressmaker takes her dummy to the beach. An abandoned wife battles her fate through home decor. Someone follows the cow over the moon.
    
    Often whimsical, sometimes disturbing--occasionally both at once--these poems revel in language and image and myth. Whether pausing over the moment of a goldfish's passing, speculating on the contents of a goddess's wallet, testing the sharp edges of memory or exploring the significance of skin, the poems in this unique collection find the odd in the ordinary and the luminous in the lost.

    Watch out. The sting is in the tail.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJean Sheppard
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9780981325217
    A Run at the Moon
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    Jean Sheppard

    For over twenty-five years, Jean Sheppard taught academic English at a highly regarded independent school for girls in Toronto, Canada. Since leaving teaching, she has launched a writing and editing business. She also posts weekly themed non-fiction and fiction pieces to her blog, "The Frog Meditations."

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