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Leonard SchwartzLeonard Schwartz's most recent book is The New Babel: Towards a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (University of Arkansas Press). His Salamander: a Bestiary, with woodcut prints by Simon Carr, comes out this spring with Chax Press.
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