Date of Birth General Sociology There’s only one thing Mark

There’s only one thing Mark knows for certain: his wife was keeping secrets

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Flame-haired Grady McNeil is beautiful

Anita Rutter is everything nine-year-old Meena wants to be

Date of Birth General Sociology There’s only one thing MarkThe poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R. Jones has moments of humor and playfulness for example, in a litany of indelible nicknames of the members of her childhood cohort in Atlantic City. If Date of Birth is heart wrenching in its journalistic reporting of suffering, it is also a testament to