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Spina's chief subjects in these stories are Italian military officers who idle their time away at their club or exploring the strange lands where they have been posted

along with a look at their rich natural and cultural history

Touched with the author's characteristic breezy

The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation

Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise Stanley Cath its first violent forays inIn Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise, Wyatt Prunty ushers readers into a seesaw world, one that teeters between small fables of childish misgivings and adult assurances. Alternately shadowed and illuminated by nostalgia, this deft, witty volume brings together seventeen of Pruntys recent poems, seven of which have been previously published in Poetry, the Hopkins Review, the Kenyon Review, and Blackbird. In 'Crescent Theater, Schenectady, NY,' a silent