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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Meitner, Erika, 1975–

  [Poems. Selections]

  Copia / by Erika Meitner. — First edition.

       pages ; cm

  ISBN 978-1-938160-46-2 (paperback) — ISBN 978-1-938160-47-9 (ebook)

  I. Title.

  PS3613.E436A6 2014

  811'.6—dc23

2014005049

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