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Text by, Dwight Eddins, American@Illustrated by, Alvin C. Sella, American, 1919 - 2013
X. Of Desire and the Circles of Hell / I Sex / II Jealousy of Her Past (poem)
Plate IX. The best is, if he keeps silent, a rock deep in the pool’s coma (illustration)
IX. Old Men (poem)
Plate VIII. Two in the drunken morning, the truce dead at birth (illustration)
VIII. Plungings (poem)
Plate VII. a child’s swing hangs in a stand of beech trees (illustration)
VII. In the Room Where the Little Girl Died (poem)
VI. Cancer (poem)
Plate V. Ten years old, eleven, we wheezed in the fogs of lust (illustration)
V. Older Girl (poem)
Plate IV. At the mountain’s foot a cold wind is rising, the crippled dogwood quivers (illustration)
IV. Appalachian Sabbath
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