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Benmont Tench was a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and has spent decades as a session musician and ...

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The latter aspect most resonated with Duhamel, a poet well acquainted with the Arabian lyric poem and who recognized its potential to capture the uniformity of days filled with no outings and no ...

Building on 20th-century innovations within confessional and prose poetry, they have melded lyric verse with memoir and essay, poetry with prose, official documents with photographs, video stills ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

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