antique mall
the torn uniforms
of many wars
are displayed between lace
and glassware  

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Margarita Engle is a botanist and the Cuban-American author of several novels, most recently The Poet-Slave (forthcoming from Henry Holt). Short works appear in such journals as Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, Caribbean Review, and Hawai'i Pacific Review. Awards include a Cintas Fellowship, a San Diego Book Award, and most recently, a 2005 Willow Review Poetry Award. Margarita lives in central California, where she enjoys hiking and helping her husband with his volunteer work for a wilderness search-and-rescue dog-training program.
 

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