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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Armantrout, Rae, 1947–

[Poems. Selections]

Itself / Rae Armantrout.

pages; cm. — (Wesleyan poetry series)

ISBN 978-0-8195-7467-1 (hardcover: acid-free paper) —

ISBN 978-0-8195-7568-8 (ebook)

I. Title.

PS3551. R455A6 2015

811’.54—dc23 2014034434

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Cover: This photograph of a spongy decorator crab (Marcocoeloma trispinosum) shows how this particular crab used other living creatures to decorate itself—in this case by including some spectacular zoanthids (Zoanthus sp.). Decorator crabs attach a variety of living and nonliving material to their carapace (exoskeleton shell) as camouflage. This crab, living among a colony of the zoanthids, and was nearly invisible. Its camouflage shows the evolution of “tool use” at this “primitive” level of the animal kingdom. Courtesy of Coral Morphologic, www.coralmorphologic.com