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    Music Box
    Music Box
    Music Box
    Ebook132 pages51 minutes

    Music Box

    By Maria Morisot

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    These are poems of love and despair, death and the afterlife, rejection and acceptance; they hinge on my anxieties after experiencing some recent nightmares. This volume contains some of the deepest love poems I've written as yet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Morisot
    Release dateJun 24, 2014
    ISBN9781310300226
    Music Box
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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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