The editors express gratitude to everyone who offered their time and expertise while we were working on Tributes, with special thanks to Nancy Crampton, Rollie McKenna, Jonathan Williams, Gail Roub, Joe LeSueur, George Robert Minkoff, Declan Spring/ New Directions Publishing Corporation, Eleanor W. Traylor/ Howard University, Nancy MacKechnie/Vassar College Libraries, Erick Falkensteen/The Granger Collection, Quincy Troupe, Robert Kelly, Anthony McCall, Thalia Field, Karen Walker, Sadia Talib and, in particular, our managing editor, Michael Bergstein.
Quotations from the work of Sterling Brown are reprinted by permission. “Strong Men,” “Frankie and Johnny,” “The New Congo,” “Mob” (section VII from “Side by Side”), the first two stanzas of “Crispus Attucks McKoy” and the penultimate stanza of “Honey Mah Love” are reprinted from The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, copyright © 1980 by Sterling A. Brown. Originally published by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. in 1980, and reprinted by TriQuarterly Books in 1989 and by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in 1996 by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. “Frankie and Johnny” was published in Southern Roads by Sterling A. Brown; copyright © 1932 by Harcourt, Brace & Co.; copyright renewed 1960 by Sterling A. Brown. All rights reserved; this material is used with permission of Northwestern University Press.
Quotations from Yvor Winters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1971 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Quotations from Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues, reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Copyright © 1995 by John Sampatakakos, literary representative.
Quotations from Frank Stanford, You and The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by permission of C. D. Wright. Copyright © the Estate of Frank Stanford. Material on the horse apple, in C. D. Wright’s “Of the Mulberry Family: An Arkansas Epilogue,” adapted from Trees of Arkansas, by Dwight M. Moore. Reprinted by permission of Arkansas Forestry Commission.
Quotations from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 1947, 1948, 1952 by Ralph Ellison.
Quotations from Kenneth Patchen, First Will & Testament; Orchards, Thrones & Caravans; Red Wine & Yellow Hair; and The Famous Boating Party reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1939, 1949, 1952, 1954 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Quotations from Edward Dahlberg, The Edward Dahlberg Reader, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1961 by Edward Dahlberg and New Directions Publishing Corporation.