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.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN PfS, VOLUME 18, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Gettysburg Review, v. 4, Spring, 1991 for "Mark Strand," by Harold Bloom. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Hollins Critic, v. xxi, December, 1984. Copyright 1984 by Hollins College. Reproduced by permission.—The Iowa Review, v. 10, Fall, 1979 for "Past Halfway: 'The Retrieval System', by Maxine Kumin" by Sybil P. Estess. Copyright © 1979 by The University of Iowa. Reprinted by permission of the author.—Sulfur, v. xi, Fall, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Victorian Poetry, v. 11, Season, 1973 for "Hardy's 'Darkling Thrush': The 'Nightingale' Grown Old," by Charles E. May. © West Virginia University, 1973. Reproduced by permission of the author.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN PfS, VOLUME 18, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Ali, Agha Shahid. From The Country Without a Post Office. W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Agha Shahid Ali. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Collins, Billy. From Questions About Angels: Poems. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Corn, Alfred. From Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life and Work. Edited by Annie Finch, Johanna Keller and Candace McClelland. CavanKerry Press Ltd., 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Annie Finch, Johanna Keller and Candace McClelland. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Forché, Carolyn. From The Angel of History. HarperCollins, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Carolyn Forché. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.—Huong, Ho Xuan. From Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. Edited and translated by John Balaban. Cooper Canyon Press, 2000. Copyright 2000 by John Balaban. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kizer, Carolyn. From The Nearness of You. Copper Canyon Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Carolyn Kizer. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Maynard, Katherine Kearney. From Thomas Hardy's Tragic Poetry: The Lyrics and the Dynasts. University of Iowa Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by the University of Iowa. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ownbey, E. S. From Essays in Honor of Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams. Edited by Howard Creed. Birmingham-Southern College, 1971. Reproduced by permission.—Paz, Octavio. From The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. Edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions Publishing, 1991. Copyright © 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990 by Eliot Weinberger. All rights reserved.—Pinsky, Robert. From History of My Heart. The Ecco Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Robert Pinsky. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.—Rogers, Pattiann. From Geocentric. Gibbs Smith. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Strand, Mark. From The Continuous Life: Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 1990 by Mark Strand. Reproduced by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.—Tagore, Rabindranath. From Gitanjali: A Collection of Prose Translations Made by the Author from the Original Bengali. Scribner Poetry, 1997. Copyright 1913 by Macmillan Publishing Company. Copyright renewed 1941 by Rabindranath Tagore. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Scribner Poetry, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN PfS, VOLUME 18, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Agha, Shahid Ali, photograph by Stan Sherer. Reproduced by permission.—Akhmatova, Anna (seated), photograph. Archive Photos, Inc./Express Newspaper. Reproduced by permission.—Carson, Anne, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Collins, Billy, during a press conference in New York, photograph by Beth A. Keiser. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Forché, Carolyn, portrait photo, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Hardy, Thomas, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Hardy, Thomas, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Japanese haiku poet Bashō, woodblock print. Corbis Corporation. Reproduced by permission.—Kizer, Carolyn, photograph by Thomas Victor. Reproduced by permission of the Harriet M. Spurlin on behalf of the Estate of Thomas Victor.—Kumin, Maxine, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Matsuo Bashō, drawing by Koko.—Parker, Dorothy, 1933, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Paz, Octavio, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Pinsky, Robert, photograph by El Bailey. Reproduced by permission.—St. James Cathedral in Montreal, Canada, in the snow, photograph. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.—Strand, Mark, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Tagore, Rabindranath, photograph. © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Vietnamese villager returning home at sunset, after peddling goods in the city of Hanoi, photograph. © Reuters New-Media Inc./Corbis. Reproduced by permission. Reproduced by permission.