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    Retrievals: Collected Poems
    Retrievals: Collected Poems
    Retrievals: Collected Poems
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    Retrievals: Collected Poems

    By Tim Wenzell

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    Retrievals is a collection of poems that explore personal experiences, such as the set of poems drawn from Catholic school, but also create personas from an assortment of characters, some tragic, some comic, as well as poems offering short observations of the absurd.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJan 21, 2020
    ISBN9781725255463
    Retrievals: Collected Poems
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    Tim Wenzell

    Tim Wenzell is an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. He is published widely, including the novel Absent Children (2000), short stories, poetry, and journalism, as well as two books on Irish ecocriticism, Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature (2009) and Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature (2019). He is currently preparing a short-story collection for publication.

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