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    You Are Once Again The Stranger
    You Are Once Again The Stranger
    You Are Once Again The Stranger
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    You Are Once Again The Stranger

    By R Bremner

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    Collected poems from the thirty-five year writing career of R. Bremner. Poems for where you work, play, and live. Poems for reading in cafes, bars, libraries, and your lonely room.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR Bremner
    Release dateFeb 7, 2012
    ISBN9781466093980
    You Are Once Again The Stranger
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    R Bremner

    R. Bremner, a former cab driver, truck unloader, computer programmer, and vice-president at Citibank, lives in Glen Ridge, NJ, USA, with his beautiful sociologist wife, their brilliant son, and their excitable puppy Ariel. A regular contributor to Poets Online and the Poetry Super Highway live radio show, he has appeared in International Poetry Review, the Journal of Formal Poetry, the Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Anthology, Yellow Chair Review, Oleander Review, the Mensa Bulletin, Paterson Literary Review, Passaic Review, Turbulence (UK), Southlit (South Asia), Shot Glass Journal, Red Wheelbarrow Anthology 7, Ancient Paths, Crab Fat, Every Writers’ Resource, Sanitarium (UK), the Society of Classical Poets, and ten eBooks. He reads at many venues regularly, and is often mistaken for the mythical Jersey Devil. He has traveled extensively, especially to Sri Lanka, the birthplace of his wife. He likes you to visit him at http://www.pw.org/content/r_bremner .

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