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Excerpts from Mystical Poems of Rumi by Jalāl al-dīn Rūmī, translated by A. J. Arberry, copyright © 1968 by A. J. Arberry. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.
Excerpts from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, copyright © 1943 and renewed 1971 by Harcourt Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Excerpt from “The Master Speed” by Robert Frost, from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, copyright © 1936 by Robert Frost, copyright © 1964 by Lesley Frost Ballantine, copyright © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company LLC.
“Married Love” by Kenneth Rexroth, from The Orchid Boat: The Women Poets of China, edited by Kenneth Rexroth and and Ling Chung, copyright © 1972 by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung. Reprinted by permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
Excerpt of a poem by Paul Valéry, from The Collected Works in English, Bollingen Series 45, Vol. 2, by Paul Valéry, copyright © 1969 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
“Will You Perhaps Consent to Be” by Delmore Schwartz, from Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, copyright © 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Lay Your Sleeping Head” by W. H. Auden, from W. H. Auden Collected Poems by W. H. Auden, copyright © 1940, 1968 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House Inc.
“Poem XIII: Chamber Music,” by James Joyce, from Collected Poems by James Joyce, copyright © 1918 by B. W. Huebsch Inc., copyright © 1927, 1936 by James Joyce, copyright © 1946 by Nora Joyce. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
“The Old Song and Dance” by Kenneth Rexroth, from Collected Shorter Poems, copyright © 1952 by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpts from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © 1934 by W. W. Norton & Company Inc. and renewed 1962 by M. D. Herter Norton. Revised edition copyright © 1954 by W. W. Norton & Company Inc. and renewed 1982 by M. D. Herter Norton.
“The Abyss” by Theodore Roethke, copyright © 1963 by Beatrice Roethke, Administratix of the Estate of Theodore Roethke, from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc.
Excerpts from One Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth, copyright © 1955 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Ache of Marriage” by Denise Levertov, from Poems 1960–1967, copyright © 1966 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“A Marriage” by Michael Blumenthal, from Against Romance by Michael Blumenthal, copyright © 1987 by Michael Blumenthal. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Excerpt from “The Place Poem—3” by Ted Enslin, from Weddings from the Heart by Daphne Rose Kingma, copyright © 1995 by Daphne Rose Kingma. Reprinted by permission of Conari Press.
“God Wills It” by Gabriela Mistral, translated by Dudley Fitts, from Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry, edited by Dudley Fitts, copyright © 1947 by New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Patriarchal Poetry” by Gertrude Stein is used by permission of the Estate of Gertrude Stein.
Excerpt from Sunstone by Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger, copyright © 1957, 1987 by Octavio Paz, copyright © 1987 by Eliot Weinberger. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from a Hindu love poem by Vidypati, from In Praise of Krishna by Edward C. Dimock and Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of the Asia Society.
“A Prayer for a Wedding” by Joel Oppenheimer, from On Occasion by Joel L. Oppenheimer, copyright © 1973 by Joel L. Oppenheimer. Reprinted by permission of Theresa Maier, trustee of the Joel Oppenheimer Literary Estate.
Excerpt from “Epithalamion” by Stephen Dunn, from Landscape at the End of the Century by Stephen Dunn, copyright © 1991 by Stephen Dunn. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company Inc.
“Everybody Loves a Bride, Even the Groom” by Ogden Nash, copyright © 1953 by Ogden Nash, and “What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner or Later” by Ogden Nash, copyright © 1935 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.
“Tree Marriage” by William Meredith, from Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by WIlliam Meredith, copyright © 1997 by William Meredith, published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved; used by permission of Northwestern University Press and the author.
Excerpt from “The Country of Marriage” by Wendell Berry, from Collected Poems by Wendell Berry, copyright © 1986 by Wendell Berry, published by North Point Press. Reprinted by permission of the Spieler Agency.
Excerpts by Denise Matthews, Melissa Errico, John Stamos, Kim Basinger, Jesse Jackson, Scott Ian, Lyle Lovett, Kenny Rogers, Joan Rivers, Michael Lewis, Rosemary Clooney, William Shatner, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Mindy McCready, and Larry King from People magazine, July 1995 and June 1998 editions, copyright © 1995, 1998 by Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of People magazine.
Excerpt from “Gift from the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House Inc.
Excerpt from “The Chuppah” by Marge Piercy, from My Mother’s Body by Marge Piercy, copyright © 1985 by Marge Piercy. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House Inc.
Excerpt from Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist by Huda Shaarawi, translated and with an introduction by Margot Badran, copyright © 1986 by Margot Badran. Reprinted by permission of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
Excerpt from “Amores” by E. E. Cummings, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, copyright © 1923, 1951 by E. E. Cummings, copyright © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, copyright © 1976 by George James Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
“Love at First Sight” by Alan Ziegler. Reprinted by permission of Alan Ziegler.
“The Middle Years” by Walter McDonald. Reprinted by permission of Walter McDonald.
“The Changed Man” by Robert Phillips. Reprinted by permission of Robert Phillips.
“Vow” and “Personal” by Larissa Shmailo, copyright © 2008 by Larissa Shmailo. Reprinted with her permission from A Cure for Suicide, published by Cervena Barva Press.
“Morning Poem” by Matthew Zapruder, from you say. say., copyright © 2009 by Matthew Zapruder. Used by permission of Uphook Press.
“A Bouquet” by Bei Dao, from The August Sleepwalker, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall, copyright © 1990 by Bei Dao and New Directions Publishing Corporation.
“Home with You” by Ta’Shia Asanti, from Black Love, edited by Michael Datcher, copyright © 1999 by Ta’shia Asanti. Reprinted by permission of Beyond Baroque Books. “Untitled” by Michael Datcher, from Black Love, edited by Michael Datcher, copyright © 1999 by Michael Datcher. Reprinted by permission of by Beyond Baroque Books.
The excerpt from “A Poem for Michael & J” by V. Kali, from Black Love, edited by Michael Datcher, copyright © 1999 by V. Kali. Reprinted by permission of Beyond Baroque Books.
“It’s Only You” by Dolores Guerrero, “The Orange Trees” by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, “In Praise and Defense of Women” by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, excerpts by Fulvia Lupulo, and the Mexican proverb on page 104 are all excerpted from Treasury of Mexican Love Poems, Quatations & Proverbs, edited and translated from the Spanish by Enriqueta Carrington, copyright © 2003 by Enriqueta Carrington. Reprinted by permission of Hippocrene Books and Enriqueta Carrington.