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- Title Waiting for the Light
- Author Alicia Suskin Ostriker
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
- Date 2017-02
- ISBN 9780822964520 / 082296452X
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 in (19.81 x 14.99 x 0.76 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American poetry
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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