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    Surpassing Pleasure
    Surpassing Pleasure
    Surpassing Pleasure
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    Surpassing Pleasure

    By John Slater

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    This energetic first collection moves freely from the world of professional snooker to drunken adolescent escapades. Slater contemplates the art of moving furniture, the marginalia of monastic scribes and daydreams in a Japanese garden. Depicting care or abandon, the poems reflect on that unique carefree care for language that is poetry itself.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherporcupinequill
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781122977111
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