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    Five Foot Voice: The Selected Works of Alise Versella
    Five Foot Voice: The Selected Works of Alise Versella
    Five Foot Voice: The Selected Works of Alise Versella
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    Five Foot Voice: The Selected Works of Alise Versella

    By Alise Versella

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    In this collection of poetry twenty-year-old author Alise Versella opens her heart to the world exploring feelings of first love and the pain that follows as it ends, faith and religion and its affect on the world and the sheer beauty life brings to you as you take to the open road and explore what ultimately lies within your heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 21, 2011
    ISBN9781456723217
    Five Foot Voice: The Selected Works of Alise Versella
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    Alise Versella

    Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, Alise has always had a fondness for notebooks. Every trip to the drugstore with Grandpa resulted in the purchase of yet another Meade notebook. That infatuation with the crisp, clean pages of yet to be filled notebooks, and a voracious appetite for reading, grew into a desire to write poetry that would express what was in her heart. These poems are imaginative, inspirational, and thought provoking. High school and community colleges have awarded her with Teen Art Festival accolades and honor awards for creative writing two years in a row. People come and go out of our lives, but Alise believes they imprint something of themselves onto us. That impression leaves us to re-evaluate ourselves. Our reflections muddy for a moment and we must re-asses. People change us undoubtedly, but through her poems at least this young author will never lose herself.

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