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A high school senior attempts to salvage her reputation among her Ivy League–obsessed classmates by writing their college admissions essays and in the process learns big truths about herself in this mesmerizing debut novel-in-verse

Now comes a new collection from this startlingly original poet

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By Michael Kolster

Life Watch — Barnstone '48 Course Materials Bean for Bowdoin Collection productsBy Willis Barnstone, Class of 1948, Honorary Degree 1981 Life Watch: A Circle of Ninety One Nights is an ambitious sequence of poems that begins in childhood, moves through Barnstones adult years, and returns to youth. The poems engage and reflect on the civil wars that the author found himself in the midst of, Mexican orphanages, the cafes and arts salons in Paris, and walking with Borges. As the circles of these poems widen, they gather many