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[email protected]. ! e Folklore Muse ! e Folklore Muse Poetry, Fiction, and Other Re" ections by Folklorists Edited by Frank de Caro Utah State University Press Logan, Utah Copyright © 2008 Utah State University Press. All rights reserved. Excerpt from Kamp: A Memory Novel copyright © 2003 John Burrison. “Ballad Girls,” by Frank de Caro; “Eating Alone,” by Margaret Yocom; “Historical Sign” and “Christmas Tree,” by Ted Olson; extract from Lost in Redskirt Forest, by Neil R. Grobman; “my mother’s garden,” “arrowhead,” “shadowplay,” “tag,” and “red rover,” by Susan Stewart; and “Rock and Word,” by Steve Zeitlin, are reprinted by permission of their respective authors. “Legends, Rumors, Lore and Revelations (Some Incomplete) Involving Leaton Troutwine, a Local Eccentric/Celebrity/Hero (and Gordon’s Owner),” by Matt Clark, appears here by permission of Matt Clark’s literary executors, Michael Gri# th and Josh Russell. “Wondrous Love,” by Libby Tucker, is reprinted by permission of the author and Paterson Literary Review. “Work Song,” from Lay Back ! e Darkness: Poems by Edward Hirsch, copyright © 2003 by Edward Hirsch.