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Are Nightmares Prose Or Poetry?

ARE NIGHTMARES PROSE OR POETRY? The Posthumous Poems Of Marty Christensen Marty Christensen (1942-2012) was Oregon’s finest surrealist poet. His poetry mixed observations of a world both mysterious and beautiful with cries of inner rage and pain that were expressed in short and often humorous stanzas. Descended from a long line of Lutheran ministers,Marty believed in God but couldn’t repress his impulse to criticize the deity’s performance, writing poems like arrows aimed towards the Heavens. This posthumous volume was edited by his wife Lorna, collected in the year since his death. The manuscripts were patiently retrieved from shoeboxes in the closet, papers stuffed into kitchen drawers, and transcribed from recordings on cassette tape. A combination of all nine Greek muses put together, Lorna shared a long life with Marty and now serves as his literary executor. Casey Bush

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