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Petersburg" was chosen for the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry

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This collection is an aid to reflection for Western readers who might take for granted the values Liu has dedicated his life to achieving for his homeland

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A Son of the Middle Border HIS027180 Petersburg" was chosen for theA classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming of age odyssey of a farm boy who informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital