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Poems copyright © 1938, 1963, 1998 by Éditions Gallimard

Translation and afterword copyright © 2018 by Richard Sieburth

Preface copyright © 1958 by Lawrence Durrell

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This work received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.

Frontispiece image: Copyright © 2017 by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, the Charles E. Merrill Trust and Elisabeth H. Gates Fund, 1967.

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