She Walks in Beauty_ A Woman's Journey Through Poems - Caroline Kennedy [63]
Joyce Sutphen, “Older, Younger, Both.” Copyright © 2000 Joyce Sutphen. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Anna Swir, “The Greatest Love,” translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan, from Talking to My Body. English translation copyright © 1996 by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan. Reprinted with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.
Wislawa Szymborska, “Vietnam” from Poems, New and Collected: 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska, English translation by Stanislaw Barnczak and Clare Cavanagh copyright © 1998 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Faber & Faber Ltd. This material may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Arthur Symons, “White Heliotrope,” reprinted with the permission of The Literary Estate of Arthur Symons.
Natasha Trethewey, “Letters from Storyville: December 1910” from Bellocq’s Ophelia. Copyright © 2002 by Natasha Trethewey. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press. Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.
Margaret Walker, “Lineage” from This is My Century: New and Collected Poems by Margaret Walker. Copyright © 1989 by Margaret Walker. Reprinted by permission from The University of Georgia Press.
Ellen Watson, “Girlfriends.” Used by permission of the author.
Richard Wilbur, “June Light” from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems. Copyright 1947 and renewed 1975 by Richard Wilbur, reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Faber & Faber Ltd. This material may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher.
Richard Wilbur, “The Catch” from New and Collected Poems. Copyright ©1987 by Richard Wilbur, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Faber & Faber Ltd. This material may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher.
William Carlos Williams, “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime” from Collected Poems Volume I: 1909-1939 (Carcanet Press, 1987). Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
Adam Zagajewski, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” from Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, translated by several translators. Copyright © 2002 by Adam Zagajewski. Translation copyright © 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted with the permission of Farrar Straus & Giroux, LLC. and Faber & Faber Ltd.
About the Author
CAROLINE KENNEDY is the author and editor of seven bestselling books on constitutional law, American history, politics, and poetry.
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Copyright
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Electronic rights were not secured for the following poems that appear in the print edition of She Walks in Beauty: Julia Alvarez, “Woman’s Work,” “Hairwashing,” and “Woman Friend”; Sandra Cisneros, “Little Clown, My Heart”; Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart of a Woman”; Sappho, “We know this much”
Copyright © 2011 Caroline Kennedy
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the original print edition of this book as follows:
She walks in beauty : a woman’s journey through poems / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy. — 1st ed.
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