Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays, Pocket Poets Number 33 (Anne Waldman)

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Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays
Pocket Poets Number 33

Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman, world renowned for her high-energy poetry performances, is the author of over thirty books and chapbooks of poetry. She is the co-founder and director of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Edited by Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman

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