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  Copyright © 2018 by Linda Pastan

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

  Names: Pastan, Linda, date- author.

  Title: A dog runs through it : poems / Linda Pastan.

  Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018002468 | ISBN 9780393651300 (hardcover)

  Classification: LCC PS3566.A775 A6 2018 | DDC 811/.54—dc23

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  ISBN 978-0-393-65131-7 (e-book)

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