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Stevens, Wallace, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens. Copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Schoenfeld, Ellie, “Lucien’s Birthday” from Difficult Valentines. Copyright © 2004 Ellie Schoenfeld. Used by permission of Ellie Schoenfeld.
Wagoner, David, “Lost” from Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems. Copyright © 1999 David Wagoner. Used by permission of the poet and University of Illinois Press.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne, “Urban Law” from Genius Loci. Used by permission of the author.
Cohen, Leonard and Sharon Robinson, “Everybody Knows” from the album Cohen Live. Copyright © 1988. Stranger Music Inc. (BMI).
Oliver, Mary, “Wild Geese” from Dream Work. Copyright © 1986 by Mary Oliver. Published by Atlantic Monthly Press.
Heaney, Seamus, “Doubletake” from The Cure at Troy. Used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
Rich, Adrienne, “Prospective Immigrants Please Note”. Copyright © 2002, 1967, 1963 by Adrienne Rich, from The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950–2001 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of the author and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.