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    Assaulting World Leaders With Palm Branches
    Assaulting World Leaders With Palm Branches
    Assaulting World Leaders With Palm Branches
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    Assaulting World Leaders With Palm Branches

    By Maria Morisot

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    Assaulting World Leaders With Palm Branches is the culmination of 20 years spent in isolation and bound in chains with only sticks and glue to keep her company.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Morisot
    Release dateJun 14, 2018
    ISBN9780463915554
    Assaulting World Leaders With Palm Branches
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    Maria Morisot

    Maria Morisot has been writing poetry since the late 1990’s and has self-published over 150 chapbooks of her own poetry since the year 2012 when she published her first book of poetry, Please Don’t Touch. She works also as a visual artist under the name Moan Lisa, and has been creating controversy and a stir with art since 2011 when she first took up a brush.

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