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    Cat Bones
    Cat Bones
    Cat Bones
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    Cat Bones

    By Joan Cofrancesco

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    These are poems about Rimbaud, Verlaine, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, reincarnation, cats, love, and Robert Bly.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 15, 2017
    ISBN9781546217435
    Cat Bones
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    Joan Cofrancesco

    The author has published twenty books of poetry. She loves to hike in the Adirondacks and live in upstate New York. She had published books in Amazon Quarterly, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Kalliope, Sinister Wisdom, the Healing Muse, 13th Moon, and other literary journals. She loves to hike, travel, visit museums, and read and write poetry.

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      Cat Bones - Joan Cofrancesco

      © 2017 joan cofrancesco. All rights reserved.

      Cover Art by Devon Seifer.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse  11/14/2017

      ISBN: 978-1-5462-1724-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5462-1743-5 (e)

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      Contents

      Year of the Cat

      The Virtues of Having

      Cats as Pets

      My Name is Alice

      And I Am Hemingway’s Cat

      4AM

      Pulling the House Around Me

      Like an Old Afghan

      He Must Have Been a Buddha

      In One of His 9-Lives

      The Geometry of My Pear-

      Shaped Cat

      Poem to Raymond Carver

      Mysteries

      Are You Warm Enough,

      Or Shall I Put Another Log in the Fire?

      Part II

      Another 4AM Poem

      20 Degrees Below Zero

      Company on Christmas Eve

      Pap Smear

      Leaping

      Voo-doo

      Simplifying My Life

      Licking the Pages

      Winter Massage

      Walking A Thin Line

      Life #6

      Tea For the Tillerman

      Mediterranean Cat

      Seer Meditating

      Near the Ocean, by Candlelight

      No Longer a Vessel

      Amelia Earhart Poem

      Nike Tree

      Red Cats      Black Cats      Angela Davis

      Expatricat

      Café Expresso, Woodstock, NY

      Alchemy

      New Orleans

      Temptation

      Summer of ’96

      Letter to a Younger Woman

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