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	Holy Land 4.51 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moon's Jaw 4.32 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ringing 3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poets and Artists (O&S) Self-Portrait Issue by Bob Hicok, Pris Campbell (欧宝娱乐 Author), John Korn 4.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sky Rat 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Slow Boiling Beach 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Messiahs by Anonymous, Rauan Klassnik (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Gary J. Shipley (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ice Cream Truck Stalled at the Bottom of the World by Jon Cone, Rauan Klassnik (欧宝娱乐 Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birth of Venus it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea (chapbook) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rauan made a comment on his review of The Birth of Venus " Receptive devotion hurls me into this work, into this joyful panic room laced with the half-devoured hymeneas of vengeful sunsets, exhaled in the swee ...more "
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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Every book should be beautiful. Is it beautiful? Or is it just simply VIOLENCE? Ugly evil boring violence. I鈥檒l answer this way. This book says Violence. This book says it over and over. The book screams it. It鈥檚 bo ...more
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“In heaven I will find you.
Among the pigeons and scraped bodies. The sky鈥檚 spinning round and
round. Vultured color. Darkness throbbing. Like a child spun round
and round. It does not stop.”
― Rauan Klassnik, Ringing

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