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    Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna
    Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna
    Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna
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    Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna

    By Charles Ghigna

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    Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna gathers the tight poetic works of Charles Ghigna in a single volume.

    Ghigna is the author of more than 100 books from Random House, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc. and more than 5000 poems that appear in textbooks, anthologies, newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and The New York Times.

    He served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanopic Publishing
    Release dateJun 23, 2019
    Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna

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      Stones - Charles Ghigna

      Lion

      The Human Cannon Ball

      Sword Swallower

      Tightrope Walker

      Geek

      Balloon Man

      Tennis Lion

      Bin

      Ant Farm

      Picket Fence

      Childhood

      Butterflies

      Spring

      Spring Sideshow

      Caviar

      Homerun Voyeur

      The Ballet of a Boxing Fan

      Southern Bred

      1952

      Riding Home from the Funeral

      Attic Haiku

      Poem Hunter

      The Good Poem

      II

      John Coltrane

      Stephen King

      Anne Sexton

      Bonnie and Clyde

      Honest Lies

      Ash

      Eve

      Orchid

      Strelitzia

      Pansies

      Passion Fruit

      Salvation

      Sotto Voce

      Adieu

      There’s a U-Haul in the Driveway

      Telephone Lines

      Past Eden

      Dawn

      Lazy Susan

      Ghost Cocoon

      Silent Vows

      Midnight Mass

      Morning

      Easy

      Present Light

      Royal Love

      Second Eve

      The Hunch

      Détente

      If I Were Robert

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