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a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer

but he also embodied conservative values ranging from anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusadingand politicized interpretation of Christianity

Raised in the country's first ''first family

uses her own weapons--including sex and an aggressive attitude--to stay on top

MORNING STAR is an astonishing

Requiem for the Orchard - (Akron Series in Poetry) SIZE:Standard a fact she carries asThese are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties''or because of them''there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like