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    Porcupines and Nightmares
    Porcupines and Nightmares
    Porcupines and Nightmares
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    Porcupines and Nightmares

    By Joan Cofrancesco

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    The nightmares of her generation were AIDS and 9/11 and then there were the porcupines. Porcupines were the prickly little irritations that annoyed her but didnt kill her like broken relationships.
    9/11
    watching the news
    at a bar in downtown manhattan
    drinking miller high life
    a cloud
    of smoke
    rolls by
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 31, 2012
    ISBN9781477252482
    Porcupines and Nightmares
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    Joan Cofrancesco

    The author has published twenty books of poetry. She loves to hike in the Adirondacks and live in upstate New York. She had published books in Amazon Quarterly, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Kalliope, Sinister Wisdom, the Healing Muse, 13th Moon, and other literary journals. She loves to hike, travel, visit museums, and read and write poetry.

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