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FIRST EDITION

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Boyagoda, Randy, 1976-, author

Original prin / Randy Boyagoda.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77196-245-2 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-77196-246-9 (ebook)

I. Title.

PS8603.O9768O75 2018 C813’.6 C2018-901728-7

C2018-901729-5

Edited by John Metcalf

Copy Edited by Emily Donaldson

Cover Design by Michel Vrana

Typeset by Chris Andrechek

Published with the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and the financial support of the Government of Canada. Biblioasis also acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,709 individual artists and 1,078 organizations in 204 communities across Ontario, for a total of $52.1 million, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

Author acknowledgments: Thank you to John Metcalf, Dan Wells, Kim Witherspoon, Charles Foran, and T.H. Adamowski. I also gratefully acknowledge the support I received for writing this book from Ryerson University, the University of St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto, and from the Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Chapter 17 originally appeared in Commonweal magazine.