2000 Modern Library Paperback Edition

Copyright © 1998 by Deborah Garrison

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Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to The New Yorker, in which many of these poems first appeared, and to Elle, The New York Times, Open City, and Slate, where others were previously published.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garrison, Deborah.

A working girl can’t win and other poems / Deborah Garrison.— 2000 Modern Library ed.

     p.    cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-49339-2

1. Young women—New York (State)—New York Poetry.
2. Women—Employment—New York (State)—New York Poetry.
3. City and town life—New York (State)—New York Poetry. I. Title.
[PS3557.A734W67 2000]
811’.54—dc21                                                99-37413

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