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    That Kind of Door
    That Kind of Door
    That Kind of Door
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    That Kind of Door

    By Alan Finlay

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    A man loves a woman who lives on one continent and is a devoted father to his two sons who live on another - a situation that finds him sometimes in unbearable anguish. That Kind of Door describes his life/lives, in a lyrical sequence of taut musicality and precise sparse imagery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep South
    Release dateDec 29, 2017
    ISBN9781928476252
    That Kind of Door
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    Alan Finlay

    Since the early 1990s Alan Finlay's poems have been published in journals and anthologies in South Africa and abroad. He founded and edited two important literary magazines, Bleksem and donga (co-edited with Paul Wessels), and has been an editor of the poetry journal New Coin. He lives between Johannesburg and Pergamino, Argentina and works as a writer, researcher, editor and university teacher in the field of communications freedoms and rights. That Kind of Door is his fifth collection of poems.

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