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Gagarin Street.


Gagarin Street

Piotr Gwiazda

Washington Writers' Publishing House

PO Box 15271, Washington, DC 20003

0931846803 $12.00 www.wwph.org

Gagarin Street is a debut collection of free-verse poems by Polish-born author Piotr Gwiazda (Asst. Prof. of English, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County), about personal disorientation disorientation /dis·or·i·en·ta·tion/ (-or?e-en-ta´shun) the loss of proper bearings, or a state of mental confusion as to time, place, or identity.  among the streets of history that may or may not have taken place. Bridging the hypothetical and the mythical myth·i·cal   also myth·ic
adj.
1. Of or existing in myth: the mythical unicorn.

2. Imaginary; fictitious.

3.
 into a word where secrets are revealed piece by piece, Gagarin Street provokes deep thought at the changing nuances of personality and environment with the passage of time. "Four Autobiographies": 1) I tried to write it down: // how I abandoned the sinking ship sinking ship

A mutual fund that has a substantial outflow of funds because of its weak investment performance.
, / washed up on the indifferent INDIFFERENT. To have no bias nor partiality. 7 Conn. 229. A juror, an arbitrator, and a witness, ought to be indifferent, and when they are not so, they may be challenged. See 9 Conn. 42.  shore / among people whose words I couldn't understand, / though I had mastered every language of the world. // (See it's already distorted.)
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