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“The Way It Is” from Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems by William Stafford. Copyright © 1998, 2014 by William Stafford and the Estate of William Stafford. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, graywolfpress.org.
“How to Write a Poem” from Theatre of the Imagination (Sounds True audio program) by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Copyright © 2005 by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Used by permission of Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Excerpt of four lines from “The Work of the Poet Is to Name What Is Holy” from Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire by Diane Ackerman. Copyright © 2002 by Diane Ackerman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpt from “Necessary Explanation,” translated by Kimon Friar, from Selected Poems 1939–1988 by Yannis Ritsos, edited and translated by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades, with additional translations by Athan Anagnostopoulos. Copyright © 1988 by BOA Editions, Ltd. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of BOA Editions, Ltd., boaeditions.org.
“To Paint the Portrait of Bird” by Jacques Prévert, translated by John Dixon Hunt, from Modern European Poetry: French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish, edited by Willis Barnstone. Copyright © 1966 by Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from “The roaring waterfall” by Su Tung-p’o, translated by Burton Watson, from Selected Poems of Su Tung-p’o. Translation copyright © 1994 by Burton Watson. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, coppercanyonpress.org.
Excerpt from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” from The Collected Poems: Volume II, 1939–1962 by William Carlos Williams. Copyright © 1955 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and by Carcanet Press.
The poems “Incandescence,” “Stacks of Wheat,” “The Poems,” and part of “Breaking Surface” from The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting by Mark Nepo. Copyright © 2016 by Mark Nepo. Reprinted by permission of Sounds True, Inc.
Material excerpted from The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. Copyright © 2000 by Mark Nepo. Used with permission from Red Wheel Weiser, LLC, Newburyport, MA, redwheelweiser.com.
Material excerpted from Finding Inner Courage by Mark Nepo. Copyright © 2007 by Mark Nepo. Used with permission from Red Wheel Weiser, LLC, Newburyport, MA, redwheelweiser.com.
Excerpt(s) from The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life by Mark Nepo. Copyright © 2005 by Mark Nepo. Used by permission of Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Excerpt(s) from As Far As the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul by Mark Nepo. Copyright © 2011 by Mark Nepo. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Health Communications, Inc., hcibooks.com.
Excerpts from Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda, translated by W. S. Merwin, Anthony Kerrigan, Alastair Reid, and Nathaniel Tarn. Published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. © 1979.