The following texts included in this volume were originally published as follows:
“Preface: Old Poetry.” In So There:
Poems 1976–1983. New York:
New Directions, 1998. Copyright
© Robert Creeley. Reprinted by
permission of New Directions
Publishing Corp.
Hello: A Journal, February 29–May 3,
1976. New York: New Directions,
1978. Reprinted in So There.
Later. New York: New Directions, 1979.
Reprinted in So There.
Mirrors. New York: New Directions,
1983. Reprinted in So There.
Memory Gardens. New York: New
Directions, 1986. Reprinted in
Just in Time: Poems 1984–1994.
(New York: New Directions, 2001).
Windows. New York: New Directions,
1990. Reprinted in Just in Time.
Echoes. New York: New Directions,
1994. Reprinted in Just in Time.
Life & Death. New York: New
Directions, 1998.
If I were writing this. New York: New
Directions, 2003.
On Earth. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 2006.
Epigraphs appear here by permission as follows:
Alighieri, Dante. Purgatorio. Trans.
Laurence Binyon. London:
MacMillan and Co., 1938. By
permission of The Society of
Authors, on behalf of the Laurence
Binyon Estate.
Ginsberg, Allen. “Kaddish.” In Collected
Poems, 1947–1980. New York:
HarperCollins, 1984. Reprinted
by permission of HarperCollins
and the Wylie Agency.
———. “Memory Gardens.” In Collected
Poems, 1947–1980. New York:
HarperCollins, 1984. Reprinted
by permission of HarperCollins
and the Wylie Agency.
Kavanagh, Patrick. “Prelude.” In
Collected Poems. New York:
W.W. Norton, 1973. Reprinted by
permission of the Estate of Patrick
Kavanagh, Devin-Adair Publishers,
Old Greenwich, CT. Copyright
holder. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Lowry, Malcolm. Dark as the Grave
wherein My Friend Is Laid. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1968. Reprinted by
permission of The Random House
Group Ltd.
Olson, Charles. “When do poppies
bloom . . .” In The Maximus Poems,
ed. by George F. Butterick. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1985.
Reprinted by permission of
University of California Press and
the Estate of Charles Olson.
St. Vincent Millay, Edna. “Renascence.”
In Collected Poems of Edna St.
Vincent Millay. New York: Harper
Perennial, 1981. Reprinted by
permission of the Edna St. Vincent
Millay Society. Copyright 1912,
1940 by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Stevens, Wallace. “Anecdote of the Jar.”
In The Collected Poems of Wallace
Stevens. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Reprinted by permission of Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc.
Ziarek, Krzysztof. From Inflected
Language: Toward a Hermeneutics
of Nearness: Heidegger, Levinas,
Stevens, Celan. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1994.
Reprinted by permission of SUNY
Press.
Zukofsky, Louis. Original publication
unknown. All Louis Zukofsky
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