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Sean Thomas Dougherty has written or edited fifteen books including All You Ask for is Longing: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions 2014) and Double Kiss: Stories, Poems, Essays on the Art of Billiards (Mammoth Books 2017). His awards include a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans and an appearance in Best American Poetry. Known for his dynamic readings, he has performed at hundreds of venues, universities, and festivals including the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Old Dominion Literary Festival, and a tour across Albania and Macedonia sponsored by the US State Department. He lives in Erie, PA. For more information about Sean Thomas Dougherty, visit seanthomasdoughertyp.fatcow.com.

Books by Sean Thomas Dougherty

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Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee is the author of four collections of poetry, three from BOA Editions: Book of My Nights (2001), which won the 2002 William…

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Boa Classic Book Bundle

With this one-time purchase you will receive a box of 5 best-selling titles from Boa with a few extra goodies from the publisher at…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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The Era of Not Quite

Douglas Watson’s debut story collection is chock-a-block with deaths, births, sea and land voyages, excursions to the library, philosophical asides, and things like wolves.…

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Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000–2025

In these richly textured poems—crafted with taut clarity and consummate skill—Waters confronts the immutable presence of death by reveling in sensual pleasure and spiritual…

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Permanent Exhibit

Matthew Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind with these collage-style essays. Exercising a rapacious intellectual curiosity, he seamlessly integrates flying snakes,…

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Bell 8

"A sad soul, sometimes, but a good soul, modest and generous, has written this book, and sensitively inhabits it. . . . his singing…

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Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone

Signed copies available in limited quantities Winner of the 5th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize Winner of the 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award…

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The Clean Shirt of It

Signed copies available in limited supply The Clean Shirt of It marks the first English translation of a full-length poetry title by acclaimed Brazilian…

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