Some poets are born, others are transmigrated. John Beer follows his award-winning first collection, THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS, with an even more audacious book. Using Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde as a starting point, Beer has written LUCINDA, an incredible read unlike anything else.

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John Beer is the author of the poetry collections THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS (2010), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, the chapbook Lucinda (2013), and the full-length LUCINDA (2016). He lives in Portland, Oregon.