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Ron. Lavalette
Ron. Lavalette is a poet living in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

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We Wanted to be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

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Second Nature: A Love Story

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Little Women and Me

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Stories in Stone New York: A Field Guide to New York City Area Cemeteries and Their Residents

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How to be Death: A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel

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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

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Life: Descending / Ascending

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True Blue

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Dragon's Ark

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Mr Fox

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Color Me English

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The Collaborator of Bethlehem

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Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Story of Love, Loss, and Letting Go

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Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery

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Spyder Hole

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The Butterfly Mosque

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The Kite Runner Graphic Novel

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Globalization and the Demolition of Society

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Sleeper's Run

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American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

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Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America

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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (Voice of Witness)

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The Night Strangers

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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

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Night Swim

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Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

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Stirring the Waters: Writing to Find Your Spirit

Ron.'s Latest Blogs

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May.23.2012 - 6:25 pm

Writing On The Wall

He hopes his red Ford Ranger will make it another thirty thousand miles so he can tell people he’s driven it to the moon, but the transmission’s been slipping pretty badly, the...

May.20.2012 - 10:33 pm

After The Fact

At times like this, he thinks, it’s best to write things down; so he does, and then he goes inside with all the other strangers to view the body. Some of the strangers seem...

May.16.2012 - 4:35 pm

Mids

He’s acutely aware that it’s May, almost the middle of the year, and he thinks more and more often about phrases like “Time flies.” He finally grasps, now that he’s...

May.13.2012 - 4:30 am

On Cemetery Hill

(for KFL 02.14.27 -- 01.24.01) Sunday sunrisethe sky more brick than crimsonsailor takes warning he stands at the spotstares at all the pretty grassno one’s ever home sailor sails...

Writing

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Poem: On Tour With The Percussives

Poem: The Last I Heard

Poem: Ms. Doe

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Comments from Ron.

May.08.2012 - 2:21 am

In response to: Awkward

Side Benefit

There's a side benefit to being a largely insensitive oaf: none of this stuff gets to me. Hell, half the time I...

May.03.2012 - 3:19 pm

In response to: Doctor, Doctor Give Me the News

Rats

Geez, JJ, I was hoping for a report of more complete, rapid healing. I'm sure I wasn't hoping as hard as you were...

Apr.29.2012 - 2:07 pm

In response to: Footsies

The Old "Name Game" Song

Feet feet bo beet / Banana fana fo feet / Fee fi mo meet / Feet! Sandal sandal bo bandal /Banana fana fo fandal /...

Apr.28.2012 - 4:13 am

In response to: Spring

Not Today

Today in VT's Northeast Kingdom, we have a full ninch of snow, & it's still coming down heavy, dammit. Oy.

Apr.27.2012 - 5:39 pm

In response to: more arguments with ghosts

They Don't Come To Me

Or I thought they don't come to me, but maybe I'm just not hearing them right. Thanks for reminding me to decode more...

About Ron.

(Sample published work at: EGGS OVER TOKYO)(Live blog at: SCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED)(Prose-ish at: SIX SENTENCES) Ron. started reading and writing poetry seriously in the late '60s, when a floral-necktied student teacher dumped a bunch of books on his desk, one of...

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