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    The Death of Language
    The Death of Language
    The Death of Language
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    The Death of Language

    By Reina Attias

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781466953017
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      The Death of Language - Reina Attias

      The Death of 

       Language

      Reina Attias

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      © Copyright 2012 Reina Attias.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-5303-1 (sc)

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      ISBN: 978-1-4669-5301-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012914894

      Trafford rev. 08/14/2012

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      Contents

      Words

      Words¹

      After Wordsworth

      New Age Lecture

      Words²

      Don’t

      Aborigine

      I Dream

      These

      On Balancing

      Margins

      Retrospective¹

      Can There Be?

      Retrospective²

      (an echo)

      Waking

      To Claim a Face

      Riverboat in Cincinnati

      Fortieth Birthday

      Feeding the Carmelites’ Cat

      IKAT

      A

      In These Ways

      This Body

      Into the Sky

      Love Is on the Run

      Marquis de Sade

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