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ABOUT Jane O. Wayne Jane O. Wayne is the author of two earlier collections of poems, Looking Both Ways, which received the Devins Award, and A Strange Heart, which received the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize and Society of Midland Authors Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Iowa Review, The American Scholar, Ploughshares, and other journals. | |||||||||
From the Night Album by Jane O. Wayne “Wayne manages to deal with a complex personal vision of her world and to dramatize convincingly both the anguish and joy of her life, often with fresh, surprising figurative language.”––David Wagoner “Wayne’s book presents a sharp, clear-eyed sensibility . . .” ––booklist, JP praise for A Strange Heart:
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From the Night Album by Jane O. Wayne A woman steps out of a family album, When the last light dims, she climbs out of a window to a desk where a man who knows her secrets Here, too, she can watch both the man in the room And he goes on — the man at the desk — Now only a hand appears on a book, back to front, and she is racing to keep up:
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