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Poetry about raising a son with Asperger's Syndome, the high functioning autism disorder featured in the film "Rain Man."
This cycle of poems explores a mother's experience with raising a beloved son with Asperger's Syndrome, the high functioning form of autism sometimes known as "idiot savant" disorder and featured in the film "Rain Man." i> Dark Card /i>won the 2007 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in June 2008. It has won two post publication Awards: first place in poetry for the 2009 London Book Fair, and HM in poetry for the 2009 Green Book Award. Most of i>Dark Card's /i>poems were previously publish | |  | | Mom's Canoe
Poetry about people and place in western Pennsylvania
This cycle of poems is about the author's childhood in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania in a small town north of Pittsburgh. Altoona was once a major center for railroads and coal mines, and the economic and environmental damage caused by these industries and their decline is an important theme in the book. i>Mom's Canoe /i>also celebrates the natural beauty of the area and the courage and spirit of the people wo live there.
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Before Darkness Falls
by J. Allen Wilson
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 BEFORE DARKNESS FALLS Retails for 14.95 / but you can have it now for only 11.95 This is a book of poetry and prose that deals with real life issues that all of mankind comes to face. Some of the poems deal with the tenderness of love, while others s |
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