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    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015
    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015
    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015
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    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015

    By Ben Fitch

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    Believing nihilism to be insupportable to a sober mind, I write poetry to resolve paradoxes; in thus envisaging harmony images are summoned from the natural world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateDec 29, 2016
    ISBN9781456627942
    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015

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