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    Blue Holes
    Blue Holes
    Blue Holes
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    Blue Holes

    By Laurel Trivelpiece

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    1987 Beatrice Hawley Award Laurel Trivelpiece writes beautifully Her spectacular use of imagery leads us into deeply personal and yet transcendent places Rosalie Moore Laurel Trivelpiece is the real thing She breathes new life into language and blessed with a splendid ear that also seems to see and hear and touch and taste she sings of everything she s ever known or felt These are beautiful spirit soothing poems that say yes and yes and yes to life in melodious laughter and speech Al Young
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlice James Books
    Release dateSep 21, 2022
    ISBN9781949944075
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      Blue Holes - Laurel Trivelpiece

      Cover: Blue Holes, Poems by Laurel Trivelpiece

      Blue Holes

      Poems by

      LAUREL TRIVELPIECE

      ALICE JAMES BOOKS

      CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

      © 2018 by Laurel Trivelpiece

      All rights reserved

      Alice James Books are published by Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.

      Alice James Books

      Auburn Hall

      60 Pineland Drive, Suite 206

      New Gloucester, ME 04260

      www.alicejamesbooks.org

      eISBN: 9781949944075

      Alice James Books gratefully acknowledges support from individual donors, private foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Amazon Literary Partnership. Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

      Cover art: Colleen McCallion

      NOTE TO THE READER

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      He thought of the queen’s swans in the water meadows,

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      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications where some of

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