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    A Catherine Wheel
    A Catherine Wheel
    A Catherine Wheel
    Ebook64 pages37 minutes

    A Catherine Wheel

    By Robert Bean

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    A Catherine Wheel is Robert Bean's third collection of quasi-poems, loose haiku, misplaced footnotes, odd-angled observations of people, nature and quantum physics, strange vignettes and thickly disguised dreamscapes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Bean
    Release dateFeb 12, 2020
    ISBN9781393225195
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