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Contents Preface • ix Acknowledgments • xv Note on Translations and Transliteration • xvii 1. An Introduction Perennial Tensions • 1 2. The Poet and the National Literature • 14 3. Poet under Occupation, 1964–1971 • 30 4. Poet of National Liberation, 1971–1986 • 62 5. To Survive in the World Writing the Deep Present and the Deep Past, 1986–1993 • 94 6. Who Am I without Exile? Anxieties of Renewal and a National Late Style, 1995–2008 • 128 7. Parting Words The Poet Appropriates Contingency • 154 Postscript • 169 References • 177 Index • 185 ...

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