The author gratefully thanks the following for their permission to quote from the copyrighted works used in this book:
“Acquainted with the Night” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, by Robert Frost, ed. by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Reprinted by permission of the publishers Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Excerpt from “Bone Dreams” from OPENED GROUND: SELECTED POEMS 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Excerpt from “Church Going” from THE COMPLETE POEMS OF PHILIP LARKIN by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett. Copyright © 2012 by The Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” By Dylan Thomas, from THE POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS, copyright ©1952 by Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Graceland” from GRACELAND. Copyright © 1986. Used by permission of the Publisher: Paul Simon Music.
First three lines from “HOWL” FROM COLLECTED POEMS 1947–1980 by ALLEN GINSBERG. Copyright © 1955 by Allen Ginsberg. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Danusha Laméris, “Before” from The Moons of August. Copyright © 2014 by Danusha Laméris. Reprinted with permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Autumn House Press, www.autumnhouse.org.
“The Long and Winding Road,” ©1970 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC., 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“The Man on the Dump” from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS by Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” from The Onion, Memory by Craig Raine (1978), Copyright © Craig Raine. Used by permission of the author and David Godwin Associates.
W. S. Merwin, “Early One Morning” from GARDEN TIME. Copyright © 2016 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.
“Early One Morning” by W.S. Merwin, collected in GARDEN TIME. Copyright © 2016 W.S. Merwin, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” from Collected Poems. Copyright 1923, 1951 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Holly Peppe, Literary Executor, The Millay Society, www.millay.org.
“Mother to Son,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” and “The Weary Blues” from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor, copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“The Red Wheelbarrow,” By William Carlos Williams, from THE COLLECTED POEMS: Volume I, 1909–1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Sonnet” from SAILING ALONE AROUND THE ROOM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Billy Collins, copyright © 2001 by Billy Collins. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.