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Rooted in the rich loam of a mythic southern New Jersey, Never Far From the Egg Harbor Ice House collects thirty-six poems that conjure times, places, characters, cultural obscurities, and blunt facts. Form, rhetoric, rhythm, music, and imagery occur in great variety: Brief lyrics; serpentine narratives; demotic odes; polemics; elegies; and more. Before they wind to a close, some of the poems quarrel with, despair of, and revel in the ""I"" at their cores, even as other pronouns jostle for attention. The book offers no false reassurances or easy epiphanies, instead embodying ambiguity in all its richness. With their every syllable, these poems say ""Listen!""

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John Repp is a writer, folk photographer, and digital collagist living in Erie, Pennsylvania. He grew up along the Blackwater Branch of the Maurice River in the Pine Barrens region of southern New Jersey, a time and place that has nourished his artistic practice for fifty years. His twenty books and chapbooks of poetry and fiction include The Soul of Rock & Roll: Poems Acoustic, Electric & Remixed, 1980-2020 (Broadstone Books); Fat Jersey Blues, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize from the University of Akron Press; and Thirst Like This, winner of the Devins Award from the University of Missouri Press. Repp's website features much more information about his work, influences, and obsessions: www.johnreppwriter.com.

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