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    Anything Sounds Like a Symphony: Poetry at Maximum Volume
    Anything Sounds Like a Symphony: Poetry at Maximum Volume
    Anything Sounds Like a Symphony: Poetry at Maximum Volume
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    Anything Sounds Like a Symphony: Poetry at Maximum Volume

    By Matthew Howard

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    A continent gorges itself on new arrivals.
    Vagabonds and lost animals collide at midnight

    in alleys, sheets, and casinos for distraction,
    denial, shouting “never” into darkness.

    Anything sounds like a symphony
    when you turn the volume all the way up.

    —from "Piano"

    Crank up the verse in this collection of more than eighty poems about gravity, love, music, stars, calico cats, and everything else. From the creator of The Adventures of Meteor Mags and Patches.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Howard
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781311211996
    Anything Sounds Like a Symphony: Poetry at Maximum Volume
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    Matthew Howard

    Matthew is a mammalian vertebrate who occupies spacetime, where he possesses mass and generates electromagnetic fields. He absorbs and reflects photons, and is currently recycling his own body weight in adenosine triphosphate every day.

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