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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center		Faith Barrett Faith Barrett is an assistant professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She received her M.F.A in poetry from the University of Iowa and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley. With Cristanne Miller, she has co-edited an anthology of American Civil War poetry for which she has an advance contract from U Mass Press. She is also at work on a scholarly book project which analyzes American poetry written in response to the Civil War. Her chapbook Invisible Axis was published by Etherdome Press in 2001.

From After That Faith Barrett

As if talk could be taken for granted, someone arrives with the word "bludgeon" and the evening begins precipitously with no one trying to explain oneself. The snow which only seemed to drift down into the shape of ourselves arrived immaculately as a chair lift with mesmerizing regularity. People explained the party to themselves as an afterthought, the windows replaced by a ski instructor held at arm's length, everyone insisting privately that he'd said something specific, never having had the chance to explain.

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