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Craig Arnold, excerpt from “Ghazal for Garcia Lorca” from Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

John Ashbery, 10 haiku from “37 Haiku” from Selected Poems. Copyright © 1985 by John Ashbery. Excerpt from “Clepsydra” from Rivers and Mountains: Poems. Copyright © 1966 by John Ashbery. All reprinted by permission of George Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author and Carcanet Press, Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Bacchylides, excerpt from “To the wise my words have meaning: the sky”; and excerpts from victory ode [“Sing, O generous Clio, the praise / of fertile Sicily’s queen . . .”], translated by David Mulroy from David Mulroy, Early Greek Lyric Poetry. Copyright © 1992 by David Mulroy. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Michigan Press.

Ted Berrigan, “Sonnet #2” [“Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m.”] from The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan. Copyright © 2000 by by Alice Notley, Literary Executrix of the Estate of Ted Berrigan. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

Elizabeth Bishop, excerpts from “The Armadillo” and “Sestina” from The Complete Poems 1927–1979. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. and Penguin Random House UK, Ltd.

Andre Breton, excerpt from “Free Union,” translated by David Antin, from The Poetry of Surrealism: An Anthology, edited by Michael Benedikt (Boston: Little Brown, 1974). Reprinted with the permission of the translator.

Sterling Brown, “Kentucky Blues” and excerpt from “Market Street Woman” from Southern Road. Copyright © 1936 by Sterling Brown. Reprinted with the permission of the Sterling A. Brown Literary Estate.

Catullus, [“I hate and love. Ignorant fish, who even / wants the fly while writhing.”], translated by Frank Bidart, from The Sacrifice. Copyright © 1983 by Frank Bidart. Used by permission of the author.

Hart Crane, excerpt from “Lachryme Christi” from Complete Poems of Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon. 1933, © 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Robert Creeley, excerpt from “Bolinas and Me . . .” from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley (1945–1975). Copyright © 1982 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press. Excerpt from “Song” from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley (1945–1975) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of the Estate of Robert Creeley.

Arnaut Daniel, “Lo ferm voler qu’el bor m’intra / The firm desire which enters,” translated by Anthony Bonner from Songs of the Troubadours (New York: Weird Books, 1972). Reprinted with the permission of the translator.

Emily Dickinson, [“Lest they short come-is all my fear,” “Trust adjusts her ‘Peradventure’—,” “Soft as the massacre of Suns,” “Is immortality above,” “Brother of Ingots—Ah Peru—,” “All things swept sole away,” “I cannot live with You—,” “There’s a certain Slant of light,” and “After great pain, a formal feeling comes—” from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright 1951, © 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright renewed © 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright 1952, © 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965, by Mary L. Hampson.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), excerpts from “The Walls Do Not Fall,” “Ecce Sponsus,” “Archer,” and “Sea Rose” from Collected Poems 1912–1944. Copyright © 1982 by the Estate of Hilda Doolittle. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Robert Duncan, excerpts from “Keeping the Rhyme,” “Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow,” and “The Dance” from The Opening of the Field. Copyright © 1960 by Robert Duncan. Excerpt from “The Torso: Passages 18” from Bending the Bow. Copyright © 1968 by Robert Duncan. All reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

T. S. Eliot, excerpt from “Little Gidding” and excerpt from “Sweeney Among the Nightingales” from The Complete Poems and Plays. Copyright 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, renewed © 1964 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright 1940, 1942 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1968, 1970 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Robert Frost, excerpt from “Provide, Provide,” “Acquainted with the Night,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Two Look at Two,” “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep,” excerpt from “Design,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, 1928, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright 1936, 1951, © 1956 by Robert Frost. Copyright 1964 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

Forrest Gander, excerpt from “Sensations upon Arriving” from Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. Excerpt from “Field Guide to Southern Virginia” from Science & Steepleflower. Copyright © 1998 by Forrest Gander. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Federico Garcia Lorca, “Ode to Walt Whitman” from A Poet in New York, translated by Greg Simon and Steven F. White. Copyright © 1988 by Greg Simon and Steven F. White. Reprinted by permission of the Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.

Allen Ginsberg, excerpts from “American Sentences” and “After Lalon” from Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992. Copyright 1994 by Allen Ginsberg. Excerpts from “Howl” and “America” from Collected Poems 1947–1980. Copyright © 1955 by Allen Ginsberg. All reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and the Wylie Agency, LLC.

Jorie Graham, excerpt from “Masaccio’s Expulsion” from Erosion, edited by Luca Sosella. Copyright © 1983 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. Excerpts from “Self-Portrait as the Gesture Between Them” and “On Difficulty” from The End of Beauty: Poems. Copyright © 1987 by Jorie Graham. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Jim Harrison, excerpt from [“I fell into the hidden mine shaft in Keweenaw, emerging . . .”] from The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems. Copyright © 1971 by Jim Harrison. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

Lyn Hejinian, excerpt from The Book of a Thousand Eyes. Copyright © 2012 by Lyn Hejinian. Excerpt from The Unfollowing. Copyright © 2012 by Lyn Hejinian. All reprinted with the permission of the author and Omnidawn Publishing.

Zbigniew Herbert, “Violins” from Selected Poems, translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter. Copyright © 1977 by John and Bogdana Carpenter. Reprinted with the permission of Oxford University Press, Ltd.

Brenda Hillman, [“(That’s good, you got there; can we”], [“Sarajevo ceasefire”], [“—Nice going but you don’t”], [“(And you thought”], [“(agonized”], [“and the mistake wasn’t that heavy”], [“My friend called”], and “Unfinished Glimmer” from Autumn Sojourn (Mill Valley: Em Press, 1994). Reprinted by permission of the author.

Langston Hughes, excerpts from “Evil” and “Wake” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of the Harold Ober Associates, Inc., and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.

Galway Kinnell, excerpt from “Passing the Cemetery” from “Sheffield Ghazals” in A New Selected Poems. Copyright © 2000 by Galway Kinnell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Kenneth Koch, excerpt from “Sleeping with Women” from The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch. Copyright © 2005 by the Kenneth Koch Literary Estate. 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.

Robert Lowell, excerpts from “After the Surprising Conversation,” “The Quaker Graveyard at Nantucket,” “After the Convention,” and “Colloquy in Black Rock” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1976, 1977 by Robert Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.

Jackson Mac Low, excerpt from “Finding Your Own Name” from Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works, edited by Anne Tardos. Copyright © 2008 by the Estate of Jackson Mac Low. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.

W. S. Merwin, “December Night” from Migration: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 1988, 2005 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press and the Wylie Agency, LLC.

Czesław Miłosz, excerpt from “City without a Name” and poems from “Notes” [“On the Need to Draw Boundaries,” “Landscape,” “Language,” “Supplication,” and “Aim in Life”] from New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001. Copyright © 1988, 1991, 1995, 2001 by Czesław Miłosz Royalties, Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and the Wylie Agency, LLC.

Harryette Mullen, excerpt from Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge. Copyright © 1991, 2006 by Harryette Mullen. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, www.graywolfpress.org.

Pablo Neruda, excerpt from “The Heights of Macchu Picchu,” translated by Nathaniel Tarn, from The Heights of Macchu Picchu. Copyright © 1967 by Nathaniel Tarn. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. Excerpt from “Ode to the Elephant,” translated by Ilan Stavans, from I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007). Originally published in Ploughshares, Vol 31, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 115. Copyright © 2005 by Ilan Stavans. Reprinted with the permission of Ilan Stavans. Excerpts from “Ode to an Artichoke,” “Ode to a Dictionary,” “Ode to a Hummingbird,” “Ode to Seaweed,” and “Ode to My Socks” from Selected Odes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Copyright © 2011 by Fundacion Pablo Neruda. Copyright © 1990 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.

Frank O’Hara, “Poem” [“The eager note on my door said, ‘Call me,’”] from The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara. Copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.

Michael Palmer, excerpts from “Notes for Echo Lake 2,” “Notes for Echo Lake 10,” “A Dream Called the House of Jews,” “Poem,” “Notes for Echo Lake 12/8,” and “Purples of Barley” from Codes Appearing: Poems 1979–1988. Copyright © 1988 by Michael Palmer. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro,” “Pagani’s, November 8,” “Coda,” “Alba,” “T’ai Chui,” “Sestina: Altaforte,” and “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly” from The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. Copyright 1926 by Ezra Pound. Excerpt from “Dryad” in “Pisan Canto 83” from The Pisan Cantos. Copyright 1948 by Ezra Pound. “Canto II” and excerpt from “Canto 47” from The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Copyright 1934 by Ezra Pound. All reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber, Ltd., and New Directions Publishing Corp.

Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt from “Inversely as the Square of Their Distances Apart” from The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth. Copyright © 1940, 1944, 1949, 1952, © 1956, 1957, 1963, 1968, 1974, 1976, 1978 by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Adrienne Rich, excerpt from “The Blue Ghazals” from Collected Poems 1950–2012. Copyright © 1971 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 2016 by the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Theodore Roethke, excerpt from “My Papa’s Waltz” from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Copyright © 1966. Reprinted with the permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.

Tomaz Salamun, “Emptiness,” translated by Charles Simic, from The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (The Ecco Press, 1991). Copyright © 1991 by Charles Simic. Reprinted with the permission of the translator.

Shih Cheng, “Gwak! Gwak! cries the osprey” and excerpt from “We pick ferns, we pick ferns,” translated by Burton Watson and adapted by Robert Hass from Shih Cheng in Burton Watson, The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry. Copyright © 1984 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Carol Snow,“For K.,” “In Brief,” “At the Beach,” “Elegy,” “Breath As,” [“What comfort?”], “Snow, “By the Pond: Reading,” “By the Pond: Quiet breaths,” “By the Pond: Watching the Goldfish,” and “There was a moment” from For. Copyright © 2000 by Carol Snow. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.

Gertrude Stein, excerpt from “Stanzas in Meditation” from Stanzas in Meditation. Copyright © 1956 by Alice B. Toklas. Copyright © 1980 by Calman A. Levin, Executor of the Estate of Gertrude Stein. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Green Integer, www.greeninteger.com.

Wallace Stevens, excerpts from “New England Verses,” “Gallant Chateau,” “Sea Surface Full of Clouds,” “The Sick Man,” “Credences of Summer,” and “Of Mere Being” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1954 by Wallace 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.

Virgil, II:1–8 from Virgil’s Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Reprinted with the permission of Oxford University Press, Ltd.

Anne Waldman, excerpt from “Makeup on Empty Space” from Helping the Dreamer: New and Collected Poems, 1966–1980. Copyright © by Anne Waldman. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Coffee House Press, www.coffeehousepress.org.

William Carlos Williams, excerpts from “Porous,” “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper,” “Spring and All,” and “Summer Song” from The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume I, 1909–1939, edited by Christopher MacGowan. Copyright 1938, 1939 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Excerpt from “The Ivy Crown” and “The Cure” from The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume II, 1939–1962, edited by Christopher MacGowan. Copyright 1944, 1953 by William Carlos Williams. All reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

C. D. Wright, “The Ozark Odes” from Steal Away: Selected and New Poems. Copyright © 1991 by C. D. Wright. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

William Butler Yeats, “Cuchulain Comforted,” excerpt from “The Spur,” excerpt from “Spilt Milk” “Leda and the Swan” and excerpt from “Among School Children” from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1940 by Georgie Yeats, renewed © 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michael Butler Yeats, and Anne Yeats. Copyright 1933 by the Macmillan Company, renewed © 1961 by Georgie Yeats. Copyright 1928 by the Macmillan Company, renewed © 1956 by Georgie Yeats. All reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Louis Zukofsky, excerpt from “A7” from A (New York: New Directions, 2001). All Louis Zukofsky material Copyright Paul Zukofsky; the material may not be reproduced, quoted, or used in any manner whatsoever without the explicit and specific permission of the copyright holder.

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