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    A Sword in Both Hands
    A Sword in Both Hands
    A Sword in Both Hands
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    A Sword in Both Hands

    By Dick Westheimer

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    Dick Westheimer's debut, A Sword in Both Hands: Poems Responding to Russia's war on Ukraine, is an achievement of profound empathy, reaching across the water to those suffering while reminding us of our distance from them as participatory spectators. The collection spans histories, languages, and forms, at once ambitious in scope and w

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheila-Na-Gig Editions
    Release dateDec 30, 2022
    ISBN9798987305867
    A Sword in Both Hands
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    Dick Westheimer

    Dick Westheimer has--in the company of his wife and writing companion Debbie--lived, gardened and raised five children on their plot of land in rural southwest Ohio. Dick has enjoyed picking bluegrass music with his neighbors and running and walking the trails on his and nearby farms. He is a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist and his most recent poems have appeared in Whale Road Review, Minyan, Rattle, Paterson Review, Chautauqua Review, Gyroscope Review, Northern Appalachia Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Sheila-Na-Gig online, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, and Cutthroat. More at dickwestheimer.com

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