Western Solstice

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WesternS o l s t i c e

L e o n or e Wi l s o n

HIRAETH PRESS

Dav, Maachu



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ISBN: 978-0-9835852-1-3

Pm m h cc hav pvuy appad : Pedestal , The Misft Library, Blue FithReview , Conte , The Benicia Herald , Women’s Art Quarterly Journal , A Prairie Journal , Written

River , Prism Review , The Prose-Poem Project , Innisree Poetry, Trivia: Voices o Feminism, Chopin

with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse , Identity Theory, Ascent Aspirations Magazine , Rock and Sling ,

The Furnace Review , Press 1, Slow Trains Literary Journal , Poetry Super Highway, Rattle , Red

Wheelbarrow , Squaw Valley Community o Writers Review , Arts Council Napa Valley, Wild Earth,

Quarterly West , Chrysalis Reader , Mayday Magazine , Manzanita Review , Madison Review , Third

Coast , 2RiverReview , Reed , Nimble Spirit , Poets Against the War (Sam Hamil Anthology), Writers

o the Wine Country (Heyday Press), Charon Review , Yellow Silk, Magma, Boxcar Poetry Review ,

Haight and Ashbury Review , X-Connect , 13th Moon, Umbrella, Fringe , Small Pond , Heyoka, The Adirondack Review , Ascent , Poems or All , Wicked Alice , LanguageandCulture.net , Terrain, Poets

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The Spring-Bringers or Susan Edwards Richmond

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Tomoko Uemura is Bathed by Her Mother ater a photograph by W. Eugene Smith

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Western Solstice

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My Country

“Tere are roads to take when you think of your country.”

—Muriel Rukeyeser

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World as Church

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About the Author

Leonore Wison has taught at various universities and colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area.She continues to live on her family cattle ranch in Napa, California. She has won fellowships

to the University of Utah and Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts. Her work has been in such

magazines as Quarterly West , Madison Review, Tird Coast , Poets Against the War , Nimble Spirit ,

and rivia: Voices of Feminism. She is the mother of three sons.



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