Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of Poetry for Students (PfS). Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

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American Book Review, v. 26, May-June, 2005. Copyright © 2005. Reproduced by permission.—American Libraries, v. 35, December, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by the American Library Association. Reproduced by permission.—American Literature, v. XXXVI, January, 1965. Copyright, 1965, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the publisher.—Antioch Review, v. 58, spring, 2000; v. 60, winter, 2002. Copyright © 2000, 2002 by the Antioch Review Inc. Both reproduced by permission of the Editors.—Booklist, v. 97, March 15, 2001; March 1, 2003. Copyright © 2001, 2003 by the American Library Association. Both reproduced by permission.—Boston Sunday Globe, August 3, 2003 for "On Unions, Sundered or Enduring," by Liz Rosenberg. Copyright © Liz Rosenberg 2003. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Christian Science Monitor, November, 2004. Copyright © 2004 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from Christian Science Monitor, (www.csmonitor.com).—Commonweal, v. 125, September 25, 1998. Copyright © 1998 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Georgia Review, spring, 2004, for a review of "Notes from a Divided Country," by Amy Schroeder. Copyright © 2004 by Amy Schroeder. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Gettysburg Review, v. 12, winter, 1999, for "Transience and the Lyric Impulse," by Floyd Collins. Copyright © 1999. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Judaism, v. 45, summer, 1996. Copyright © American Jewish Congress Summer 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2002, for "A Poet's Progress," by Allan M. Jalon. Copyright © 2002 by Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Louisiana Review, v. 4, fall-winter, 2004–05. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 26, winter, 2001. Copyright MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Midstream, v. 47, May, 2001. Copyright 2001 Theodor Herzl Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Midwest Quarterly, v. 46, summer, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by The Midwest Quarterly, Pittsburgh State University. Reproduced by permission.—Nation, v. 243, December 6, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by The Nation Magazine/The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—National Public Radio: All Things Considered, October 13, 2003. Copyright 2003. Reproduced by permission.—Ploughshares, v. 27, spring, 2001, for "About Heather McHugh," by Peter Turchi. Copyright © Ploughsares 2001. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Poetry, v. 177, January, 2001; v. 186, June, 2005. Copyright © 2001, 2005 by the Modern Poetry Association. Both reproduced by permission./v. 179, February, 2002, for a review of "Interrogations at Noon," by Bruce F. Murphy; v. 185, February, 2005, for "Delights and Shadows," by Brian Phillips. Copyright © 2002, 2005 Modern Poetry Association. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Publishers Weekly, v. 248, June 18, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Reed Publishing USA. Reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA, by permission.—Western American Literature, v. xxxi, fall, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Western Literature Association. Reproduced by permission.—Women's Review of Books, v. 12, November, 1994, for "What We Carry," by Alison Townsend. Copyright © 1994 by Alison Townsend. Reproduced by permission of the author./v. 16, October, 1998, for "The Bird Catcher: Poems," by Sandra M. Gilbert. Copyright © 1998 Sandra M. Gilbert. Reproduced by permission of the author.—World Literature Today, v. 71, spring, 1997; v. 78, September-December, 2004. Copyright © 1997, 2004 by World Literature Today. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Yale French Studies, 1964. Copyright © Yale French Studies 1964. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN PfS, VOLUME 24, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Alston, A. J. From an Introduction to The Devotional Poems of Mirabai. Motilal Banarsidass, 1980. Copyright © Motilal Banarsidass. Reproduced by permission.—Amichai, Yehuda. From "Not Like a Cypress," in The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Edited and translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. University of California Press, 1996. © 1986, 1996 by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. Republished with permission of University of California Press, conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.—Apollinaire, Guillaume. From The Self-Dismembered Man. Translated by Donald Revell. Wesleyan University Press, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Donald Revell. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. www.wesleyan.edu/wespress—Brenkman, John. From "The Concrete Utopia of Poetry: Blake's 'A Poison Tree,'" in Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism. Edited by Chavia Hoser and Patricia Parker. Cornell University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Cornell University. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press.—Gioia, Dana. From Interrogations at Noon. Graywolf Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Dana Gioia. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Saint Paul, Minnesota.—Housden, Roger. From Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime. Harmony Books, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Roger Housden. Used by permission of Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc. In the United Kingdom by the author.—Kim, Suji Kwock. From Notes From the Divided Country. Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McHugh, Heather. From The Father of the Predicaments. Wesleyan University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Heather McHugh. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.www.wesleyan.edu/wespress—Muske-Dukes, Carol. From Sparrow. Random House, 2004. Copyright © 2003 by Carol-Muske-Dukes. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. In the United Kingdom by the author.—Nye, Shihab Naomi. From Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. The Eighth Mountain Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Naomi Shihab Nye. All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of Far Corner Books.—Ponsot, Marie. From The Bird Catcher. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Copyright © 1998 by Marie Ponsot. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.—Santos, Sherod. From The Pilot Star Elegies. W. W. Norton, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Sherod Santos. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.—Valentine, Jean. From Door in the Mountain: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2003. Wesleyan University Press, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Jean Valentine. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. www.wesleyan.edu/wespress—Valentine, Jean, and Richard Jackson. From Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. University of Alabama, 1983. Copyright © 1983 The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Laux, Dorianne, and Michael J. Vaughan, "An Interview with Dorianne Laux," http://www.themonserratreview.com/interviews/DL_interview.html, Reproduced by permission.—Ponsot, Marie, with Meghan Cleary, "Marie Ponsot: Interview," Failbetter.com, summer-fall, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Rother, James, "A Star to Pilot By," http://www.cprw.com/members/Rother/star.htm, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Santos, Sherod, and James Rother, "Sherod Santos: The Refining Instrument of Poetry (An Interview)," http://www.cprw.com/members/Rother/santos.htm, 2001. Reproduced by permission.