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    For and Against
    For and Against
    For and Against
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    For and Against

    By Sharon McCartney

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    Shortlisted, Next Generation Indie Book Award

    Heart-corroding sex with a tin woodman. A foundering marriage like a cat on the brink of death that still manages to purr. Sharon McCartney’s visceral exploration of relationships — how they begin and end, the tenuous threads that hold people together, and the events that can tear them apart is unstinting, eyes-wide-open aware. Beginnings, endings, transitions — none elude the sometimes sardonic but always sinuous language of these finely wrought poems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoose Lane Editions
    Release dateJul 29, 2014
    ISBN9780864928153
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