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    Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
    Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
    Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
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    Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems

    By David Lee

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    Rusty Barbed Wire:

  • poems hand-selected by the author from his previous works

    David Lee:

  • attended seminary school
  • played semi-pro baseball
  • raised hogs
  • multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • winner of the Western States Book Award
  • winner of the Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award
  • winner of a Critics Choice Award
  • winner of the Utah Book Awards
  • winner of the Elkhorn Poetry Prize
  • winner of the Evolutionary Poem of the Year
  • awarded Utah Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Utah Governor’s Merit Award in the Humanities, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters
  • Runner-up for United States Poet Laureate, 2001
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamara Press
    Release dateApr 5, 2022
    ISBN9781955140010
    Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems

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