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Copyright © 1987, 1998 by Maxine hong Kingston
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With the exception of the two Prefaces and “Lew Welch: An Appreciation,” these ten pieces appeared in The New York Times in 1978, all, except “A Sea Worry,” as a weekly column entitled “Hers,” and are published here with the permission of The New York Times and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Quotes from the poetry of Lew Welch are from Ring of Bone, Collected Poems 1950–1971 © 1973 Grey Fox Press, with acknowledgment to Donald Allen.

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First Diversion Books edition August 2014
ISBN: 978-1-62681-404-2

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