Risus Sardonicus

ISBN-10: 0979220505
ISBN-13: 9780979220500
Category: American essays
Pages: 224
Language: English
Published: 2009
Author: Warren M. Hern

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"Risus sardonicus is an original book of stories, poems, essays, anecdotes, and over seventy photographs by Warren Martin Hern, and it resists classification. It is a compilation of thoughts and observations collected over several decades of the author's life. The book contains some of the author's outstanding wildlife and landscape photographs of North and South America and unique portraits of his beloved Shipibo Indian friends, but the writings of the author are at its core. The writings range from poignant to exuberant to painful to funny. Their scope ranges from intimate to global"--Publisher's blurb.

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