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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Babstock, Ken, 1970—
Airstream land yacht / Ken Babstock.
Poems.
ISBN-13: 978-0-88784-740-0
ISBN-10: 0-88784-740-4
I. Title.
PS8553.A245A64 2006 C811’.54 C2005-907390-X
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006920155
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