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A DECLARATION OF LOVE FOR HUMANITY: Judith Crispin reviews Les Wicks’ Belief

Review by Judith Crispin Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Les Wicks’ fourteenth collection of poems, Belief, is clever and brutal — an unflinching examination of human belief, in all of its …

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