Copyright © 2023 by Gabrielle Bates
First US Edition 2023
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Epigraph credit: Linda Gregg, excerpt from “The Poet Goes About Her Business”
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Excerpt from “After Your Nap” from To the Place of the Trumpets.
Copyright © 1988 by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. Used by permission of Yale University Press.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Bates, Gabrielle, 1991– author.
Title: Judas goat / Gabrielle Bates.
Description: Portland, OR : Tin House, [2023]
Identifiers: LCCN 2022044153 | ISBN 9781953534644 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781953534712 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3602.A8565 J38 2023 | DDC 811/.6—dc23/eng/20220921
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