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""A powerful, painful way of learning history, well worth reading even for those of us who think we have a handle on the horrors of war. It is especially poignant these days when we find ourselves on the wrong bank of the river, when war is aimed inward, at the heart of our own beliefs, our own homes, our own families, by our own people."" [Lucy R. Lippard, author of A Different War] ""Anne Valley-Fox's magnificent poetic meditation on the 'savage depravity' of war unflinchingly confronts monstrous realities of human nature that most of us try never to even think about. The Fight Across the River is right up there with the great anti-war poems in American literature."" [V. B. Price, author of Orpheus the Healer and Other Poems] ""The Fight Across the River is a single, relentless poem that cries out through inherited voices as history repeats itself. Anne Valley-Fox builds a choral work from historical records, tracing the perpetuation of violence through language, loyalty, fear, and succession. This work does not argue or console. It anatomizes, leaving behind not a position but a responsibility: to see what persists, and to notice where we are standing when we see it."" [Robert Saltzman, author of The 21st Century Self]

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Anne Valley-Fox was born in Paterson, New Jersey, one year after the first atomic explosion. She is the author of five collections of poetry and two works of nonfiction. For the last four decades she has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the rosy feet of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, just down the hill from Los Alamos, where the atomic bomb was born-full circle.

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