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© 2011 University of South Carolina Paperback original edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2011 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2012 www.sc.edu/uscpress 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the paperback edition as follows: Pickering, Samuel F., 1941– Dreamtime : a happy book / Sam Pickering. p. cm. A collection of personal essays. ISBN 978-1-61117-038-2 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Pickering, Samuel F., 1941– 2. English teachers— United States—Biography. 3. American essays. I. Title. PE64.P53A3 2011a 814'.3—dc23 2011021256 The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge the following publications in which essays in this volume first appeared: River Teeth and Southwest Review. Barbara Olds’s poem “Promise” is reproduced through her kind permission. ISBN 978-1-61117-119-8 (ebook) ...

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