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Patrick Friesen

Patrick Friesen has published more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of essays, stage and radio plays, and has co-translated, with Per Brask, five books of Danish poetry, including Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Ulrikka Gernes.  In January 2020, he released a CD, Buson’s Bell, consisting of composed and improvised music, with text.  His new book of poems, Outlasting the Weather:  Selected & New Poems, 1994-2020, was published by Anvil in August, 2020.

 

Outlasting the Weather

Outlasting the Weather

By Patrick Friesen

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