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    Mania

    By Maria Morisot

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    This is a compilation of several books. These are poems of an obsessive writer; with circular themes and a hopelessness of sorts. The writing deviates from time to time in pockets of exploration. It is the rhythm of the writer, captured periodically in words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Morisot
    Release dateJun 12, 2014
    ISBN9781310004018
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    Maria Morisot

    Maria Morisot has been writing poetry since the late 1990’s and has self-published over 150 chapbooks of her own poetry since the year 2012 when she published her first book of poetry, Please Don’t Touch. She works also as a visual artist under the name Moan Lisa, and has been creating controversy and a stir with art since 2011 when she first took up a brush.

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