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Epigraph: Seamus Heaney, “The Grauballe Man” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 . Copyright © 1999 by Seamus Heaney. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, http:// us .macmillan .com /fsg . All rights reserved.

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ISBN: HB: 978-1-63557-966-6; EBOOK: 978-1-63557-967-3

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