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Poems by Liz Waldner reprinted with permission from SAVING THE APPEARANCES by Liz Waldner, Ahsahta Press, 2004. Laura Kasischke, excerpts from “Impressions on Wax Tablets” and “Sacred Flower” from GARDENING IN THE DARK. Copyright © 2004 by Laura Kasischke. Reprinted with the permission of Ausable Press, www.ausablepress.org. Poems and parts thereof by Basil Bunting from COMPLETE POEMS (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) appear by permission of Bloodaxe Books. Lines from Gwendolyn Brooks: Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions. Poems by William Carlos Williams, George Oppen and Jorie Graham appear by kind permission of Carcanet Press. Poems and parts thereof by Marianne Moore, Philip Larkin, Thom Gunn, and Paul Muldoon appear by permission of Faber and Faber. “Because sap fell away” and “Summer quickens grass” Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of W. H. Auden (both poems). Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Poems by Laura Kasischke reprinted from HOUSEKEEPING IN A DREAM by permission of Carnegie Mellon University Press © 1995 by Laura Kasischke. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpts from COLLECTED POEMS by Thom Gunn. Copyright © 1994 by Thom Gunn. Excerpts from COLLECTED POEMS by Philip Larkin. Copyright © 1988, 1989 by the Estate of Philip Larkin. Excerpts from COLLECTED POEMS by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Excerpts from NOTEBOOK: Revised and expanded edition by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 by Robert Lowell, copyright renewed 1998 by Harriet Lowell. Selections from POEMS 1968–1998 by Paul Muldoon. Copyright © 2001 by Paul Muldoon. Thirty-one lines from “Fission,” seventeen lines from “The Hiding Place” and nine lines from “Region” from REGION OF UNLIKENESS by JORIE GRAHAM. Copyright © 1991 by Jorie Graham. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Eight lines from “A Parking Lot with Trees” and sixteen lines from “Falling Water,” as specified, from NORTH POINT NORTH: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by John Koethe. Copyright © 2002 by John Koethe. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Six lines from “When I Was Bout Ten We Didn’t Play Baseball” from SMALL CONGREGATIONS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by THYLIAS MOSS. Copyright © 1983, 1990, 1991, 1993 by Thylias Moss. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. “Some San Francisco Poems,” “Exodus”: By George Oppen, from COLLECTED POEMS, copyright © 1972 by George Oppen. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. “A Language of New York,” “Pedestrian”: By George Oppen, from COLLECTED POEMS, copyright © 1975 by George Oppen. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. “The Students Gather,” “A Modern Incident,” “The New People”: By George Oppen, from NEW COLLECTED POEMS, copyright © 1968 by George Oppen. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. “Spring and All,” “The Descent of Winter”: By William Carlos Williams, from COLLECTED POEMS: 1909–1939, VOLUME I, copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Poems by Angela Sorby from DISTANCE LEARNING, copyright © 1998 by Angela Sorby. Reprinted by permission of New Issues Poetry and Prose. “Landscape Without Figures,” “A Certain Age,” copyright © 1956 by Phyllis McGinley, “Portrait of Girl with Comic Book,” copyright 1952 by Phyllis McGinley, from TIMES THREE by Phyllis McGinley, copyright 1932–1960 by Phyllis McGinley; Copyright 1938–42, 1944, 1945, 1958, 1959 by The Curtis Publishing Co. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. “Never Stronger,” copyright 1934 and copyright renewed 1972 by W. H. Auden, from COLLECTED POEMS by W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. “Adolescence” by Nin Andrews appears by permission of Rodger Moody and Silver-fish Review Press. Lines from “The Steeple-Jack” and “The Hero” by Marianne Moore: Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from COLLECTED POEMS by Marianne Moore. Copyright © 1935 by Marianne Moore; copyright renewed © 1963 by Marianne Moore & T. S. Eliot. All rights reserved. Lines from “The Student”: Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from COLLECTED POEMS by Marianne Moore. Copyright © 1941 by Marianne Moore, copyright renewed © 1969 by Marianne Moore. All rights reserved. Poems by John Tranter appear by kind permission of John Tranter. Fifteen lines reprinted by permission of The University of Massachusetts Press from DANCE & DISAPPEAR by Laura Kasischke copyright © 2002 by Laura Kasischke. Excerpts from “In 1967” from ELEGY, by Larry Levis, © 1997. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa from PLEASURE DOME (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). © 2001 by Yusef Komunyakaa and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.