| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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Section One: Some Precedents |
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``Some say a host of ships...'' |
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``As I Ponder'd in Silence'' |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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``Conscientious Objector'' |
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27 | (1) |
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``Waiting for the Barbarians'' |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (53) |
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``The Conscientious Objector'' |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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``At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border'' |
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36 | (1) |
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``Watching the Jet Planes Dive'' |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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``The Altars in the Street'' |
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38 | (1) |
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from ``Wichita Vortex Sutra'' |
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39 | (1) |
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``A Litany for Survival'' |
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40 | (2) |
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``The Bombing of Baghdad'' |
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42 | (3) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (5) |
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Section Two: The Story So Far: Poems of Witness & Elegy |
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51 | (1) |
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``Requiem for the Buddhas of Bamiyan'' |
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52 | (1) |
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``The End and the Beginning'' |
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53 | (2) |
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``At the Museum of Archeology'' |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (2) |
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``Why I Wrote Out by Hand Ronald Johnson's The Book of the Green Man on an Autumn Evening in 1970'' |
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61 | (2) |
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``Because One Is Always Forgotten'' |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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``Intelligent War Machine'' |
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64 | (1) |
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``Ghazal: The Footbridge Over the Somes'' |
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65 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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``On a Sign Announcing: Expanding Arlington National Cemetery'' |
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66 | (2) |
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68 | (3) |
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Section Three: Call and Answer: Poems of Exhortation & Action |
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71 | (1) |
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from ``An Atlas of the Difficult World'' |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (1) |
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``Populist Manifesto No. 1'' |
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74 | (3) |
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77 | (1) |
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from ``For the Fifty (Who Made PEACE With Their Bodies)'' |
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78 | (1) |
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``Stupid Meditation on Peace'' |
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79 | (1) |
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``The God of the Weather-Beaten Face'' |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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``Spring 1971 Washington D.C.'' |
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86 | (1) |
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``The People Who Pass By'' |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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``Maya Weiss Organizes an Anti-War Rally in January 2007'' |
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89 | (1) |
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``Her Favorite Somali Fable Told to Her by Her Grandmother'' |
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90 | (2) |
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``Reincarnation of the Peace Sign'' |
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92 | (3) |
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Section Four: Healing the Breach: Poems of Reconciliation |
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``Christmas Soccer Game'' |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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``On the Way Home: A Prayer for the Road'' |
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97 | (2) |
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``The Victory of Beit Jalla'' |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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``Making Peace in Jerusalem'' |
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103 | (1) |
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``At the State Correctional Facility'' |
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103 | (1) |
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``Cease Fire: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka'' |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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``You Have the Right to a Cessation of Hostilities'' |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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``The Daily Contortions'' |
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110 | (2) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (4) |
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Section Five: Savoring the World: Poems of Shared Humanity |
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from ``This Connection of Everyone With Lungs'' |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (2) |
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``Beach Road to Miramar Resort, Lebanon'' |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (2) |
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``Carolyn Forche's in El Salvador'' |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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``Something Like a Sonnet for Something Like Peace'' |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (5) |
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Section Six: The Way We Learn to Love the World: Poems of Wildness & Home |
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``The Peace of Wild Things'' |
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135 | (1) |
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``Trying to Understand the Patriot Act'' |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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``February Report on the Conditions in the Interior'' |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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``And there's plenty to be unhappy about'' |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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``This Day in Particular'' |
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148 | (1) |
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``Explaining Current Events to a One-Year-Old'' |
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149 | (1) |
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``Landscape in a Time of War'' |
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150 | (2) |
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152 | (3) |
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Section Seven: Becoming the Next Thread: Poems of Ritual & Vigil |
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``Wrap in Parchment and Also Pink Paper'' |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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``The Fourteen Happy Days'' |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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``At the Veterans Hospital'' |
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161 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (3) |
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Section Eight: Gentleness that Wears Away Rock: Poems of Meditation & Prayer |
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171 | (1) |
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171 | (2) |
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173 | (2) |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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``Songs for a Belgrade Baker'' |
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177 | (2) |
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``Kwansaba for June Jordan'' |
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179 | (1) |
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179 | (2) |
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``A Glyph for Judith Malina'' |
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181 | (1) |
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``Prayer from a Picket Line'' |
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182 | (1) |
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``Prayer for the Morning Headlines'' |
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182 | (1) |
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``The Book of Constellations'' |
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183 | (2) |
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| The Poets |
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185 | (16) |
| The Editors |
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201 | (2) |
| Acknowledgments |
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