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    Used Animals

    By Nicholas Lungu

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    About this ebook

    A first edition in English of Nicholas Lungu's acclaimed poetry book "Used Animals" adapted from it's original in Romanian. "He employs a strange, perplexed verse, where the words acquire a special force through their very ability to express, quite clearly, the inexpressible" [Michaela Bocu – Literary Critic]
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJan 25, 2015
    ISBN9781312853423
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