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Eldest Daughter This page intentionally left blank [3.149.234.141] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 05:24 GMT) Eldest Daughter Ava Leavell Haymon þoems J Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge Published by Louisiana State University Press Copyright © 2013 by Ava Leavell Haymon All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America first printing designer: Mandy McDonald Scallan t ypeface: Calluna printer: McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. binder: Dekker Bookbinding Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haymon, Ava Leavell. [Poems. Selections] Eldest daughter : poems / Ava Leavell Haymon. pages cm ISBN 978-0-8071-5336-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 9780 -8071-5337-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5338-3 (pdf) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5339-0 (epub) — ISBN 978-0-80715340 -6 (mobi) I. Title. PS3608.A945A6 2013 811'.6—dc23 2013011599 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. ∞ [3.149.234.141] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 05:24 GMT) for my father who taught me the two sides of the human heart This page intentionally left blank [3.149.234.141] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 05:24 GMT) Somewhere, out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. —rumi J This page intentionally left blank ...

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