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Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1949039684
ISBN13: 9781949039689
Publisher: Orison Books
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.04 Depth: 6.03
Language: English

As its title hints, Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best insists on the links between congruous and incongruous things: the rusting moon and a katydid, Eden and Yugoslavia, blackbirds and imaginary numbers--not to mention between any two people. Jane Zwart has hoarded wonders large and small in these poems, holding them up beside life's inevitable pain and grief. Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best demonstrates an enduring faith in the written word to bind us closer together, in our sorrows and in our joys: Every poem // is riddled with holes. But I am threading two tin cans' / punctured ends that you might know me yet.

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