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A portion of this work was originally published, in slightly different form, in Conjunctions.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Haiku used as epigraph, from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Introduction and selection copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Unless otherwise noted, all translations copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Frontispiece: Illustration of the “Flying Pendent Lever Bridge” from Thomas Pope’s Treatise on Bridge Architecture, New York, 1811. Courtesy of Lehigh University Digital Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barton, Emily, 1969–
2005016269
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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