She Walks in Beauty_ A Woman's Journey Through Poems - Caroline Kennedy [59]
Amy Clampitt, “The Smaller Orchid” from The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt. Copyright © 1997 by the Estate of Amy Clampitt. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Lucille Clifton, “lumpectomy eve” from The Terrible Stories. Copyright © 1996 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org and Curtis Brown Ltd.
Lucille Clifton, “blessing the boats” and “to my last period” from Quilting: Poems 1987-1990. Copyright © 1991 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.
Wendy Cope, “From June to December” from Two Cures for Love. Reprinted by permission of United Artists on behalf of Wendy Cope and Faber & Faber Ltd.
Gregory Corso, “Marriage,” from The Happy Birthday of Death, copyright © 1960 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
E. E. Cummings, “may I feel said he.” Copyright 1935, © 1963, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1978 by George James Firmage, “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in.” Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, “if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have.” Copyright 1931, © 1959, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1979 by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Dick Davis, “6 A.M. Thoughts” from Devices and Desires: New and Selected Poems 1967–1987, Published by Anvil Press Poetry in 1989.
Emily Dickinson, “My life closed twice before its close,” “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, “I stepped from plank to plank,” and “The Bustle in a House,” reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Hilda Doolittle (HD), “Never More Will the Wind” from Collected Poems. (Carcanet Press, 1984.) Copyright 1925 Hilda Doolittle. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
Rita Dove, “Chocolate,” from American Smooth. Copyright © 2004 by Rita Dove. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Euripides, “The Bacchae Chorus” from Euripides, Complete Greek Tragedies Euripides V, translated by William Arrowsmith. Copyright © 1959 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission from University of Chicago Press.
Gavin Ewart, “To Margo.” Reprinted with permission of Margo Ewart.
Robert Frost, “A Minor Bird,” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1928, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright 1956 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Deborah Garrison, “Worked Late on a Tuesday Night.” Copyright © 1998 by Deborah Garrison, from A Working Girl Can’t Win and Other Poems by Deborah Garrison. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
Nikki Giovanni, “A Poem of Friendship” from Love Poems. Copyright © 1968-1997 by Nikki Giovanni. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Louise Glück, “August” and “Summer at the Beach” from The Seven Ages. Copyright © 2001 by Louise Glück. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Used in audiobooks and the UK with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Oliver St. John Gogarty, “To Death” Reprinted by permission of Colin Smythe Ltd, on behalf of V. J. O’Mara.
Thomas Gunn, “Jamesian” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by Thomas Gunn. Reprinted by permission of Farrar Straus & Giroux, LLC. and Faber & Faber Ltd.
Ellen Hagan, “PS Education” and “Puberty—With Capital