Fence Volume 8, Numbers 1 and 2 Copyright © 2005 Fence Magazine, Inc.
“Letters from The American Poet" excerpted from The Holy Spirit o f Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft’s Secret Self by Joe Wenderoth forthcoming in November 2005 from Verse Press.
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