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Authors: Beth Kephart

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About the Author

BETH KEPHART
was nominated for the National Book Award for her memoir
A SLANT OF SUN
. She is also the author of
HOUSE OF DANCE, NOTHING BUT GHOSTS, INTO THE TANGLE OF FRIENDSHIP, STILL LOVE IN STRANGE PLACES, SEEING PAST Z, GHOSTS IN THE GARDEN
, and
FLOW
. Beth won both the Speakeasy Poetry Prize and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2005. She is a ballroom dancer and an avid gardener in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her family.

You can visit Beth online at www.beth-kephart.blogspot.com

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Copyright

The Cyrano de Bergerac quotations beginning on Part One: Chapter 6 are excerpted from
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand, newly translated by Humbert Wolfe and illustrated by Simon Greco, Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, NY, copyright 1941. Used with permission from Peter Pauper Press.

The excerpts on Part One: Chapter 15 from “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin come from
You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe
, edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard, © 1994.

Material on Part One: Chapter 17 appeared, in a very different form, as “First Beginner” in
CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
, Vol. 24, No. 1, Summer 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Beth Kephart.

Material on Part One: Chapter 21 appeared, in a very different form, as “The Drowning Girl” in
Peregrine
, Vol. 1, Spring 2005, a publication of the Creative Writing Program of the University of Pennsylvania. Copyright © 2005 by Beth Kephart.

The excerpt on Part Two: Chapter 4 from “Ars Poetica” by Archibald MacLeish comes from www.poemhunter.com.

The excerpt on Part Two: Chapter 7 is from “One Art” from
The Complete Poems 1927–1979
by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

The poem on Part Two: Chapter 18, “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, comes from
Dream Work
, Atlantic Monthly Press, © 1986. Used with permission from Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

UNDERCOVER
. Copyright © 2007 by Beth Kephart. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition April 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-190605-3

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