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An excellent collection of poetry by the Poet Laureate of Southbridge, Massachusetts. Each poem is a reflection of Bill Tremblay's poetic memories about growing up in his Franco-American working-class family.

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Bill Tremblay is an award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, editor, and reviewer whose work has appeared in ten full-length volumes of poetry. Hundreds of his poems have appeared in literary magazines and in such anthologies as the Pushcart Prize, The Jazz Poetry Anthology, and Best American Poetry, 2003. In 1994 he published his novel, The June Rise [Utah State University Press], which was widely and favorably reviewed, especially on NPR's ""All Things Considered."" In 2004, his book, Shooting Script: Door of Fire received the Colorado Book Award. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as at Yaddo. He was a Fulbright visiting Lecturer at Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Mr. Tremblay edited Colorado Review for 15 years and is the recipient of the John F. Stern Distinguished Professor award for his thirty-three years teaching in and directing the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Colorado State University. His latest book is The Luminous Race Track, [2023], poetic memoirs about growing up in his Franco-American working-class family in the town of Southbridge, Massachusetts where he has just been appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate. He is currently at work on a new collection of poems tentatively entitled Signs & Wonders.

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