“The Hucklebone of a Saint,” “Theo’s Girl,” and “Sinner, Don’t You Waste that Sunday,” are taken from Childhood of the Magician (Liveright); “Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus” and “The Well-Tempered Falsehood: The Art of Storytelling,” from Angel in the Parlor; “Salvage for Victory,” from chapter 28 of Things Invisible to See; “How Poetry Came into the World and Why God Doesn’t Write It,” from The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Short Stories (University Press of New England); “Telling Time,” from The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays (University Press of New England).
“Close Encounters of the Story Kind” appeared in New England Review.
“Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him,” “How to Stuff a Pepper,” “Moss,” “How the Hen Sold Her Eggs to the Stingy Priest,” “A Humane Society,” “In Praise of ABC,” “For You, Who Didn’t Know,” “Angels in Winter,” “When There Were Trees,” from Household Tales of Moon and Water (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [the “Material”] [Seq. Num. 25308]); from Carpenter of the Sun: “Carpenter of the Sun”; from Water Walker: “A Wreath to the Fish,” “Walking Poem,” “In Praise of Unwashed Feet,” “Onionlight,” “The Potato Picker,” “Roots,” “Marriage Amulet,” “Little Elegy with Books and Beasts,” “Buffalo Climbs Out of Cellar,” “Saints Lose Back,” “Divine Child Rolls On.”
“The Poet Invites the Moon for Supper,” “The Poet Takes a Photograph of His Heart,” “The Poet Turns His Enemy into a Pair of Wings,” “The Poet’s Wife Watches Him Enter the Eye of the Snow,” from 19 Masks for the Naked Poet, copyright © 1971 by Nancy Willard.
“William Blake’s Inn for Innocent and Experienced Travelers,” “Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way,” “The King of Cats Sends a Postcard to His Wife,” “The Tiger Asks Blake for a Bedtime Story,” “Epilogue,” from A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, copyright © 1981 by Nancy Willard.
“One for the Road” appeared in Field.
Other poems are taken, as acknowledged, from The Ballad of Biddy Early.