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	Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey 4.06 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Tree & The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Sabbath Among the Ruins 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Negra y Blanca; Fugue and Commentary 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Other Hand 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My dear friend, Sharon Simone, has lost most of her eyesight, and she is no longer able to read books or long texts online. Her husband, Pat Simone, is doing the kindness of reading my book, The Story That Must Not Be Told to her and they have reached page 40 or thereabout. As in

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Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf: Tamanwit Ku Sukat and Traditional Native American Stories from the Columbian Plateau

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Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest

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Selected Poems

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“Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.”
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“Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.”
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“Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!”
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