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    We Were Fish: Collected Poetry
    We Were Fish: Collected Poetry
    We Were Fish: Collected Poetry
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    We Were Fish: Collected Poetry

    By J. M. McDermott

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    The weird, goofy, charming, anti-traditional, anti-academic, scathing, political, apolitical and sometimes transcendental poetry, prose poetry and odd-thoughts-on-paper of critically-acclaimed fantasy novelist J M McDermott have appeared in many magazines, his blog, and a few anthologies.

    Included here is the Rhysling Award-nominated "3 Poems Called Cosmic".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBad Ducky Industries
    Release dateAug 8, 2011
    ISBN9781466168916
    We Were Fish: Collected Poetry
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