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MiKSinSKi , Jr. Picture editor: Joann Stern  \nFront Cover: © 1994 Christopher Little  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR  \nKathryn VanSpanckeren is Professor of English at the University of Tampa, has lectured in American literature widely abroad, and is former director of the Fulbrightsponsored Summer Institute in American Literature for international scholars. Her publications include poetry and scholarship. She received her Bachelors degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph. D. from Harvard University.  \nISBN (paper)  \nISBN (ePub)  \nISBN (mobi)  \n978-1-625-92035-5  \n978-1-625-92036-2  \n978-1-625-92037-9  \nThe following text materials may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder.“In a Station of the Metro”(page 63) by Ezra Pound. From Ezra Pound Personae. Copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Translated and reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.  \n“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”(page 65) by Robert Frost. From The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923. © 1969 by Henry Holt and Co. , Inc. , © 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted and translated by permission of Henry Holt and Co. , Inc.  \n“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”(page 66) by Wallace Stevens. From Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1923 and renewed 1951 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.  \n“The Red Wheelbarrow”(page 66) and “The Young Housewife”(page 67) by William Carlos Williams. Collected Poems. 1909-1939. Vol. I. Copyright 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions.  \n“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”(page 69) by Langston Hughes. From Selected Poems by Langston Hughes. Copyright 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and renewed 1954 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.  \n“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”(page 80) by Randall Jarrell from Randall Jarrell: Selected Poems; © 1945 by Randall Jarrell, © 1990 by Mary Von Schrader Jarrell, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Permission granted by Rhoda Weyr Agency, New York.  \n“The Wild Iris” (page 125) from The Wild Iris by Louise Glück. Copyright © 1993 by Louise Glück. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.  \n“Chickamauga”(page 126) from Chickamauga by Charles Wright. Copyright © 1995 by Charles Wright. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.  \n“To The Engraver of my Skin”(page 129) from Source by Mark Doty. Copyright © 2001 by Mark Doty. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.  \n“Mule Heart”(page 130) from The Lives of The Heart by Jane Hirshfield. Copyright © 1997 by Jane Hirshfield. 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