© Estate of Anne Szumigalski, 2012

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In the works of fiction, in this book, names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Selected and Edited by Mark Abley

Cover Design by David Drummond

Typeset by Susan Buck

Printed and bound in Canada at Imprimerie Gauvin

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Szumigalski, Anne, 1922-

A woman clothed in words / Anne Szumigalski ; edited

by Mark Abley.

ISBN 978-1-55050-478-1

I. Abley, Mark, 1955- II. Title.

PS8587.Z44W58 2012 C818'.54 C2012-900049-3

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