UMO
by Sacha Archer
*** scroll to the bottom for a recording of UMO performed by Archer ***
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UMO (audio recording)
Listen to Archer performing UMO for Reading from Underneath on May 23rd, 2019 at The Printed Word in Dundas, ON. UMO begins ~ 32:15.
UMO is out of print from The Blasted Tree Store
Featured by The Blasted Tree: January 31, 2021
Sacha Archer
Contributing Author
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UMO by Sacha Archer is a Blasted Tree sound/erasure poem.
ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-65-3
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