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The Collected Poems of Donald J. Trump

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    “I thought maybe I could turn the thing that has been weaponized into something beautiful,” says Gregory Woodman of Portland, the 29-year-old founder of the ad agency Weller Creative, who along with his business partner Ian Pratt have published The Collected Poems of Donald J. Trump. The 373 page book compiles hundreds of Trump's tweets and is arranged in chapters such as "Loathings," "Free Verse" and "Introspective Musings."  Combining the measured contentiousness of Thoreau, the terse poignancy of Hemingway, and the incisive social commentary of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Toni Morrison, Donald J. Trump has emerged as one of...

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Twitter & Verse

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Welcome to Twitter & Verse our weekly roundup of our most popular tweets and a poem : Twitter Must see - These Rolling Bookmobiles Are Cooler Than Your Local Libraries | @io9 http://ow.ly/qwjbc  Is the future of ebooks about to be decided by a judge in East Texas? | @melvillehouse http://ow.ly/qtHZe  The first 24-hour library vending machine in the United States has arrived, it cost $200k and it lives in Oklahoma http://ow.ly/qwaDM  Mapping a Literary City - The folks at @Dorothy_______ create a map using the titiles of 600+ books of English Lit http://ow.ly/qpbaI  Building a book wall - Nova Scotia...

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Twitter & Verse

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    Welcome to Twitter & Verse, a new weekly offering featuring Book Patrol's most popular tweets of the last week with a sprinkling of poetry. Twitter 'Sadistic' Amazon Treated Book Sellers 'The Way A Cheetah Would Pursue A Sickly Gazelle' | @businessinsider http://ow.ly/q4DnO  "There are few more exciting places to contemplate the evolution of library design than Seattle’s Central Library" http://ow.ly/q8NcN  How Amusing, Barnes & Noble Is Now Amazon's Biggest Publishing Problem | @Forbes http://ow.ly/qdxK3  A bookman’s tour of California: 9 days, 14 stores - buys 20 books | @ivdailybulletin http://ow.ly/qcbP9  “Buy from bookstores or they’ll disappear!” Frustrated Japanese...

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