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Published by RMB in hardcover in 2013
ISBN 978-1-927330-70-8
This electronic version published in 2013
ISBN 978-1-927330-71-5
Cover photo: Brooks Range, Alaska by Jim Haberl
The poem “When we must part” (1977/1986) © Earle Birney, was published in the collection Last Makings, with an introduction by Al Purdy (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991), 116, and is reprinted with permission.
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