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    A Cluster of Noisy Planets
    A Cluster of Noisy Planets
    A Cluster of Noisy Planets
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    A Cluster of Noisy Planets

    By Charles Rafferty

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    Charles Rafferty’s latest collection of prose poems turns philosophical. In A Cluster of Noisy Planets, Rafferty captures the rhythms and patterns of life as a lover, father, and poet, distilling each moment to its essence and grounding them collectively in the wider perspective of a changing world, the constant turning of the stars and the changing seasons of the New England countryside. With a knowing nod to the passage of time—day to day, year to year, epoch to epoch—these lyrical poems form a record of the profound, ephemeral joys, losses, and echoes of commonplace moments.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateOct 5, 2021
    ISBN9781950774487
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      A Cluster of Noisy Planets - Charles Rafferty

      A Cluster of Noisy Planets

      A Cluster of Noisy Planets

      prose poems by

      Charles Rafferty

      AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES, NO. 190

      BOA EDITIONS, LTD.       ROCHESTER, NY       2021

      Copyright © 2021 by Charles Rafferty

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      First Edition

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      Publications by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with funds from a variety of sources, including public funds from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the County of Monroe, NY. Private funding sources include the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester Area Community Foundation; the Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak, and Dan Amzalak; the LGBT Fund of Greater Rochester; and contributions from many individuals nationwide. See Colophon for special individual acknowledgments.

      Cover Art: Take Two: Once in a Blue Moon by Pat Pauly

      Cover Design: Daphne Morrissey

      Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

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      BOA Editions books are available electronically through BookShare, an online distributor offering Large-Print, Braille, Multimedia Audio Book, and Dyslexic formats, as well as through e-readers that feature text to speech capabilities.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Rafferty, Charles, 1965- author.

      Title: A cluster of noisy planets : prose poems / by Charles Rafferty.

      Description: First Edition. | Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2021. |

      Series: American poets continuum series ; no. 190 |

      Identifiers: LCCN 2021009565 (print) | LCCN 2021009566 (ebook) | ISBN 9781950774470 (paperback) | ISBN 9781950774487 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3568.A378 C58 2021 (print) | LCC PS3568.A378 (ebook) | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009565

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009566

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