Where We Live

Poetry, Rare and Signed

Where We Live

by Peter Makuck

This is a first edition, first printing. Book Condition: Fine. This copy has been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd., since its publication. Unread. Ideal collector's copy. Actual cover design may vary.

Praise for the collection

"On the basis of memory Peter Makuck has built us his world. The poetry is in the building, the use of language, intimate, exact, colorful. Each poem has its on reality, its own unexpected and moving truth." —Louis Simpson

© BOA Editions, Ltd. 1982.

FormatPaperback , Paperback (Signed), Hardcover, Hardcover (Signed)

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About the Author

Peter Makuck

About the Author

Peter Makuck is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including six from BOA Editions: Mandatory Evacuation (2016), Long Lens: New & Selected Poems (2010), Off Season in the Promised Land (2005), Against Distance (1997), The Sunken Lightship (1990), and Where We Live (1982). Makuck is also the founder of Tar River Poetry, where he served as editor for nearly thirty years. For more information about Peter Makuck, visit www.makuck.com.

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