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{ 187 } ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “For the Sake of People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us,” copyright © June Jordan. Reprinted by permission of Basic Civitas Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group. “On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South,” copyright © Natasha Trethewey, originally appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review. Reprinted by permission of Natasha Trethewey. ...

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