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.