Patricia B Fargnoli's Writings
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Poem
Jan.13.2009
Duties of the Spirit, Tupelo Press, 2005
Patricia FargnoliPO Box 132Walpole, NH 03608
Duties of the Spirit
one of the duties of the spirit is joy, and another is serenity... (Thorton Wilder in a letter to Paul Stephanson, 1930)
If the first is joy--the rhumba at sunrise,a three-note whistle in the sugar maple--
and the second is serenity--a chair by a quiet window, the adagio fading down the hill at...
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About Patricia
poet laureate of New Hampshire from 12/2006-3/2009, I've published 6 collections of poetry. My most recent book is Then, Something, Tupelo Press, 2009. Necessary Light (Utah State Univ. Press, 2000), winner of the May Swenson Book Award; Small Songs of Pan...
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