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First published in 2008 Copyright © David Francis 2008
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The poem on page ix is reproduced from Untitled Poem by Anna Akhmatova from The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt, © 2007 by the Estate of Paul Schmidt, used by permission of New York Review Books (NYREV, Inc.).
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