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    Egret

    By Maria Morisot

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    About this ebook

    These are poems of an obsessive writer; with circular themes and a hopelessness of sorts. The writing deviates from time to time in pockets of exploration. It is the rhythm of the writer, captured periodically in words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoan Lisa
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301882441
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    Maria Morisot

    Maria Morisot has been writing poetry since the late 1990’s and has self-published over 150 chapbooks of her own poetry since the year 2012 when she published her first book of poetry, Please Don’t Touch. She works also as a visual artist under the name Moan Lisa, and has been creating controversy and a stir with art since 2011 when she first took up a brush.

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