GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to the publications where the following poems first appeared:
Battersea Review: “Office Worker,” “Painter’s Wife,” “Laboratory Technician”
Hudson Review: “Working-class Country Children”
Jewish Journal: “The Man of the Soil,” “The Philosopher”
New York Review of Books: “Widow with Her Sons”
Paris Review: “My Wife in Joy and Sorrow”
Poetry: “Farming Family,” “The Woman of Progressive Intellect,” “Kinetics Researcher from Vienna,” “Professional Middle-class Couple,” “The Butcher’s Apprentice,” “Revolutionaries”
Think Journal: “Farm Woman and Her Children”
Times Literary Supplement: “Girl,” “Middle-class Child”
I am especially grateful to Rajka Knipper of Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, for her help in obtaining permission to reproduce the photographs of August Sander.