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    Post-Urban Songs
    Post-Urban Songs
    Post-Urban Songs
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    Post-Urban Songs

    By Patrick Gasperini

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    Post-Urban Songs is a collection of visionary and rhapsodic poems, rich in intense imagery. Unusual characters live in a visionary world, almost a parallel reality, where the emotions, urges, impulses, conflicts, and desperate search for happiness and intellectual freedom are almost the same as in our material world.

     

    All the poems in this second edition were written between the late 1980s and 2020, but they have each been revised, corrected, and updated prior to publication.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick Gasperini
    Release dateNov 15, 2021
    ISBN9798201304669
    Post-Urban Songs
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    Patrick Gasperini

    Patrick Gasperini was born in Sidmouth, UK. He lives on the Continent now, where he works as an English teacher. He is the editor of Locust Magazine (www.locustmagazine.com), an online mag­a­zine of alternative art and literature. www.facebook.com/PatrickGasperini1 www.facebook.com/locustmagazine

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