Old Man Still Howling at the Moon

Old Man Still Howling at the Moon

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Old Man Still Howling at the Moon
Old Man Still Howling at the Moon
Hybrid essays including a mix of prose poetry and short fiction highlighting the seriocomic musings of an aging Humanist, whose years of publishing books of prose poems, essays, and fiction haven't made him as wise as he should be.
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