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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint Bee! Im expecting you! from The Poems of Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Silko, Leslie, 1948
The turquoise ledge / Leslie Marmon Silko.
p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-101-46458-8

1. Silko, Leslie, 19482. Women authors20th centuryBiography. 3. Authors, American20th centuryBiography. I. Title.
PS3569.I44Z46 2010
813'.54 dc22
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2010012128

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To Mei Berssenbrugge,
and to Linda Niemann,
wonderful writers and much-loved friends;
and to Bill Orzen
Old flames burn brightest.