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Acknowledgments

The writing of this book was informed by the thoughtful observations of many friends and colleagues. I am especially thankful in this regard for the comments of Keith Oderman, David James Duncan, Diana Abu-Jaber, Winston Fuller, and the sage Bob Mooney at Etruscan Press. I am indebted as well to Philip Brady, Starr Troup, and Julianne Popovec at Etruscan, who made of my manuscript a book. And Sara Pritchard, who makes my life better every day. How lucky I am to have found her.

Work on this project was supported by grants from the Fulbright Scholar Program and from West Virginia University. They gave me time and opportunities.

The epigraph is taken from the poem “Aegean Melancholy,” by Odysseus Elytis, as translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, who also co-translated the line from Angelos Sikelianos’ “First Rain” quoted in the text.