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Acknowledgments “Ars Poetica?” from The Collected Poems, 1931–1987 by Czeslaw Milosz,trans. Robert Hass. © 1988 by Czeslaw Milosz Royalties, Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Excerpts from “To My Daimonion” from Facing the River: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz, trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass. © 1995 by Czeslaw Milosz. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Portions of chapter 5, “Demonic Possession,” appeared in a different form as “The Daimonion of Czeslaw Milosz” in The Great River Review 30 (Spring/ Summer 1999): 46–62. My thanks to Robert Hedin and Richard Broderick for permission to use that material in this book. I would also like to thank Wake Forest University for a leave that helped me to complete the manuscript and for funds that assisted in the preparation of it as well. ...

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