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COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN PfS, VOLUME 13, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The Antioch Review, v. 41, Spring, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by the Antioch Review Inc. Reproduced by permission of the Editors.—Freedomways, v.5, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Freedomways Associates, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— The Kenyon Review, v. vi, Winter, 1984 for “Separateness and Solitude in Frost” by Patricia Wallace. Copyright © 1984 by Kenyon College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Sewanee Review, v. 84, Summer, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by The University of the South. Reproduced with permission of the editor.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN PfS, VOLUME 13, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Bruchac, Joseph. From Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets. University of Arizona Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 The Arizona Board of Regents. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Bunge, Nancy L. From Finding the Words: Conversation with Writers Who Teach. Swallow Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Nancy L. Bunge. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Duncan, Robert. From The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, second edition. Edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair. W.W. Norton & Company. Copyright © 1988, 1973 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Robert Duncan.—Espada, Martin. From Trumpets From the Island of Their Eviction. © 1994 by Bilingual Press/ Editorial Bilingüe, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Frost, Robert. From The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Henry Holt and Company, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Herrick, Robert. From English Poetry. Chadwyck-Healey Ltd, 1992–1995. Copyright © 1992–1995 Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—Kemp, John C. From Robert Frost and New England. Princeton University Press, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by Princeton Uni- versity Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mueller, Lisel. From Second Language. Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Lisel Mueller. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Richmond, M.A. From Bid the Vassal Soar. Howard University Press, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Merle A. Richmond. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Rollins, Roger B. From Robert Herrick. G.K. Hall, 1999.—Rose, Wendy. From The Remembered Earth. Edited by Geary Hobson. Red Earth Press, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by Red Earth Press. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Schnackenberg, Gjertrud. From Portraits and Elegies. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 1982, 1986 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Reproduced by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.— Stevens, Wallace. From The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Faber and Faber Ltd., 1955. Reproduced by permission.—Warren, Rosanna. From Each Leaf Shines Separate. W.W. Norton & Company, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Rosanna Warren. Reproduced by permission.—Wheatley, Phillis. From The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. Revised and enlarged edition, edited with an introduction by Julian D. Mason, Jr. Copyright © 1989 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.—Whitman, Walt. From Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose. The Library of America, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Yeats, W. B. From Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. Macmillan Publishing Company. Copyright 1903, 1906, 1907, 1912, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1928, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1956, 1957, by Macmillan Publishing Company. Copyright 1940 by George Yeats. Renewed 1986 by Catherine C. Alspach. Reproduced by permission.

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Cummings, E.E. (lounging on a bed, holding a cigarette), 1938, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Dickinson, Emily, photograph of a painting. The Library of Congress.—DuBois, W.E.B. (three-quarter view from his right, young), photograph. The Library of Congress.—Duncan, Robert, photograph by Nata Piaskowski. Courtesy of New Directions. Reproduced by permission.—Espada, Martin, photograph. Reproduced by permission.—Four busts of prehistoric man’s evolution, photograph. Corbis- Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Frost, Robert (wearing dark suit, lighter colored tie a bit rumpled), photograph. The Library of Congress.— Herrick, Robert, photograph by Schiavonetti. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— McGinley, Phyllis, Connecticut, 1964, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Mueller, Lisel, Illinois, 1997, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Stevens, Wallace (wearing light striped suit), photograph. The Library of Congress.— Union cavalry column lined along river, Rappahannock River, Virginia, 1862, photograph. National Archives and Records Administration.— Warren, Rosanna, photograph by Mark Richards. Reproduced by permission.—Wheatley, Phillis, in white empire style dress and pearls, lithograph by Lemercier, Benard and Co. New York Public Library. Reproduced by permission.—Whitman, Walt (butterfly on right hand), photograph. The Library of Congress.—Yeats, William Butler, late 1800’s, photograph. Library of Congress.