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    Heartbreak and Other Travels
    Heartbreak and Other Travels
    Heartbreak and Other Travels
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    Heartbreak and Other Travels

    By Kevin Shlosberg

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    Part 1 of award-wining poet Kevin Shlosberg's coming-of-age poetry arc "To Say This is the Way One Man Went."

    This collection of memoir-like poetry chronicles his continental travels and relationship debacles.

    This poetry is not center-justified, if you know what I mean. Heavy on imagery, light on rhyme.

    20+ poems, topics covering (but not limited to): hiking, perfidy, road-going, tea, felines, mythology, meditation and whalesong.

    Fun times guaranteed!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Shlosberg
    Release dateOct 3, 2012
    ISBN9781301886852
    Heartbreak and Other Travels
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    Kevin Shlosberg

    Kevin received his BA in English Studies from Rutgers in 1999. He currently resides in San Jose, California with his wife, J. When he's not working at Smashwords, he enjoys napping on the couch with their blind cat, Brie.Feel free to email him: bibliomaniaphobia@gmail.com.

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      Heartbreak and Other Travels - Kevin Shlosberg

      Heartbreak and Other Travels

      part one of

      To Say This is the Way One Man Went:

      Selected Poems 1999-2012

      Kevin Shlosberg

      copyright 1999-2012 Kevin Shlosberg

      all rights reserved

      These poems have previously appeared in the following journals (in some form or another):

      Meditation -The Kannon Do Chronicle, Midas's Blueballs -Spia, Ode to Prometheus -The Podium, Polaroid -The Edition

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      Smashwords Edition

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      Contents

      a quick note

      come, enter my maze

      Polaroid

      Samsara is Nirvana

      Ferwood

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