The Swallows of Lunetto

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His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. Alexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy’s Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. Aaron Burch, author of Year of the Buffalo "Birds Aren't Real is euphoric, ridiculously funny, and so very good.

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