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ABOUT Tom C. Hunley Tom C. Hunley is the author of two full-length poetry collections: The Tongue (Wind Publications 2004) and Still, There's a Glimmer (WordTech Editions 2004). He is an assistant professor in the English Department at Western Kentucky University. He operates a small poetry press, Steel Toe Books. | |||||||||
My Life as a Minor Character ISBN: 1-931247-27-7 "Hunley is the next Young/ Hoagland/Ruefle, the next man/woman/child in our collective rowboat of poets. And as one of his speakers duly notes, "Someday you're going to know this. / Or you'll drown. " --Mark Yakich "It is impossible to read My Life as a Minor Character without smiling. Not that the poems here are 'happy,' but that they are teeming with humor and tenderness and surprise. Hunley has a clear love for language, but there's nothing showy or precocious here. Honest without being earnest, each poem feels connected to a real person with real hopes and laughs and bills and bad days, heartaches and heartburn. I read this collection in one sitting. The world that I saw when I put these poems down and looked out the window was a different world, a richer, more meaningful world full of possibility and sweetness and genuine wonder." --James Kimbrell
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Fantasia In the Russian bathhouse on East 10th street In Bryant Park when the library next door |
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