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    Shoulders Holding Back Night: Poems
    Shoulders Holding Back Night: Poems
    Shoulders Holding Back Night: Poems
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    Shoulders Holding Back Night: Poems

    By Sandra S. Wayne

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    Shoulders Holding Back Night is the third volume of poems by Sandra S. Wayne. This collection shares with the first two the softer aspects of Sandra's world. She loved nature, creatures, family, gentle folk, art, travel, places and events - and that fondness threads throughout this work. So does her humor and sharp eye fo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSweetgum Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2024
    ISBN9780998668567
    Shoulders Holding Back Night: Poems
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    Sandra S. Wayne

    Sandra received a Bachelor of Science in English and a Master of Arts in Mass Communications from Central Missouri State University. She taught at community colleges in Ohio and New York. For 28 years, she and her husband, Bill Wayne, operated a bed and breakfast in her great-grandfather's circa 1867 farmhouse in Warrensburg, Missouri and traveled extensively in the Northeastern and Southwestern United States. Sandra Sue Wayne, also an award-winning photographer, used language to capture moments and feelings like images that are accessible for all ages. She died in August 2020 but continues to impact us with her life-inspiring vision of the basic beauty of time and place, love and loss - keen, playful, poignant and ageless.

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