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    Necessary Light
    Necessary Light
    Necessary Light
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    Necessary Light

    By Patricia Fargnoli

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    Winner of the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award, Patricia Fargnoli has also received the Robert Frost Literary Award, a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, has been in residences many times at the Dorset Writers Colony, and has received several other awards for her poetry. Her work has been published in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Prairie
    Schooner, and many other literary journals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUtah State University Press
    Release dateJul 1, 1999
    ISBN9780874213317
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      "...if only you could complain to someone who listens..."; from A City Without a Name by P.F. Perfect! as are most of the rest of this collection.

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