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    The Wrong Kind of Snow
    The Wrong Kind of Snow
    The Wrong Kind of Snow
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    The Wrong Kind of Snow

    By JS Venit

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJan 23, 2012
    ISBN9781469150871
    The Wrong Kind of Snow
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    JS Venit

    JS Venit was born in New York and emigrated to Belgium in 1980 where he lives and works. His poems have been published in the Partisan review, the American Poetry review, Literary Imagination and the Little Magazine. This is Mr. Venits eleventh collection of poems.

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