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Copyright © 2019 by Lawrence Weschler
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First edition, 2019
Portions of this book were previously published in “A Rare, Personal Look at Oliver Sacks’s Early Career,” Vanity Fair, June 2015.
Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint the following material:
Lines from “Epilogue,” from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
“The Panther,” from The Poetry of Rilke: Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated and edited by Edward Snow. Translation © 2009 by Edward Snow. Reprinted by permission of North Point Press.
Thom Gunn letters courtesy of the Estate of Thom Gunn.
Illustration credits can be found at the back of the book.
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