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© 2002, 2004, Text by Gregory Orr

Original edition published by Council Oak Books in Tulsa, OK.

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Published 2019 by Milkweed Editions

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Orr, Gregory, author.

Title: The blessing : a memoir / Gregory Orr.

Description: First Edition. | Minneapolis, MN : Milkweed Editions, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019001876 (print) | LCCN 2019013395 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571317223 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571313867 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Orr, Gregory—Childhood and youth. | Orr, Gregory—Family. | Poets, American—20th century—Biography.

Classification: LCC PS3565.R7 (ebook) | LCC PS3565.R7 Z46 2019 (print) | DDC 811/.54 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019001876

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