Inland Empire Author|Lois West Duffy but from the get-go our

but from the get-go our conversation was breezy and deep

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Billie's Backyard Zoo is his first foray into illustrating children's books

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Inland Empire Author|Lois West Duffy but from the get-go ourInland Empire invokes the ways in which collective memory and the force of mythmaking shape cultural and personal identity. The book trajectory develops in a series of poems examining origins: the Mesoamerican creation of humanity from cornmeal, the medieval Spanish legend of the mythical island of California, the missional trail of Saint named cities dotting the western coastline, the birth of the speaker. The second section builds from its