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xi Special Acknowledgments To the memory of my father, Delmar Phipps. And to my mother, Viviane Pauchet. Without them there is no life. To my daughter, Valentine, who shows me living poetry, and to my brother, Gaëtan, who reminds me that we are notes from a divine song. To my family and my friends, each one so uniquely necessary to the breath I draw every day. xii ...

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