She Walks in Beauty_ A Woman's Journey Through Poems - Caroline Kennedy [62]
Marge Piercy, “Sign, “To be of use,” and “What’s That Smell in the Kitchen?” from Circles on the Water. Copyright © 1982 by Marge Piercy. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and the Wallace Literary Agency.
Sylvia Plath, “Face Lift” from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes. Copyright © 1960, 65, 71, 81 by the Estate of Sylvia Plath. Editorial material copyright © 1981 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Faber & Faber Ltd.
Barbara Ras, “Secret Lives” and “You Can’t Have It All” from One Hidden Stuff. Copyright © 2006 by Barbara Ras. Used by permission of Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and the author.
Adrienne Rich, “From a Survivor” from The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950-2001 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 1973 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Sense of Something Coming” from Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, A Translation from the German and Commentary by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1981 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Michèle Roberts, “Magnificat,” from The Mirror of the Mother: Selected Poems 1975-1985. © Michèle Roberts. Reprinted with permission from Aitken Alexander Associates Limited.
Theodore Roethke, “The Waking.” Copyright 1945 by Theodore Roethke, from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. and Faber & Faber Ltd.
Matthew Rohrer, “The Emperor.” Copyright © 2010 by Matthew Rohrer. Used with permission of the author.
Alane Rollings, “The Age of Great Vocations” from In Her Own Sweet Time. © 1989 by Alane Rollings. Reprinted with permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Rumi, “Come to the Orchard in Spring” and “Out beyond ideas . . .” from A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings By Coleman Barks. Copyright © 2006 by Coleman Barks. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
George Santayana, “To WP,” 1984 from The Collected Poems, forthcoming, The MIT Press.
Sappho, “To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos” from Sappho and Alcaeus: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Lesbian Poetry by Denys Page (1969). Reprinted with the permission of Oxford University Press.
Maxine Scates, “Mother’s Closet” by Maxine Scates from Black Loam © 2005, Cherry Grove Collections, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Delmore Schwartz, “The First Morning of the Second World” from Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge. Copyright © 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Vikram Seth, “Protocols” from All You Who Sleep Tonight. Copyright © 1987, 1990 by Vikram Seth. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Irene Skolnick Literary Agency.
Anne Sexton, “Courage” from The Awful Rowing Toward God. Copyright © 1975 by Loring Conant, Jr., Executor of the Estate of Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Gertrude Stein, “A Very Valentine,” Reprinted with the permission of Stanford G. Gann, Jr., Literary Executor of the Gertrude Stein Estate.
Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour” and “The Poems of Our Climate” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Faber & Faber Ltd.
Ruth Stone, “In an Iridescent Time.” Reprinted by permission of Ruth Stone.
Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole” from Reasons For Moving; Darker; The Sargentville Notebook by Mark Strand. Copyright © 1973 by Mark Strand. Used by permission of Alfred