House Under Snow
POETRY
The Players
Intruder
Subterranean
The End of Desire
Anthology
Wanting a Child (coedited with Helen Schulman)
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NOTES
“We Real Cool”
“Sonia Sanchez writes,” Poetry Speaks Expanded, Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby, editors, Dominique Raccah, series editor, Sourcebooks, Inc., Naperville, Illinois, 2007.
“The Swing”
Quotation from “The Country Mouse,” Elizabeth Bishop, The Collected Prose, edited by Robert Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1984.
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal, Wordsworth Trust, wordsworth.org.uk/dorothyjournal.html.
Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2 revised, H. Abrams, general editor, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1968, 1962.
“You and Your Whole Race” and “I, Too”
Biographical information, Poetry Speaks, pp. 166–68.
“wonderful world of books”: “The Uselessness of Tears,” Langston Hughes, Guardian, Saturday, October 26, 2002, theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview37.
Inspiration for “I too”: Selected Letters of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel with Christina Fratantoro. Alfred A. Knopf, Random House. New York, 2015, p. 27.
Psalm 23: “The Lord Is My Shepherd”
Jean Valentine: “The likeness lies in poetry and meditative prayer.”
“One Whole Voice” is comprised of extracts from A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler, Tupelo Press, North Adams, MA, 2012.
Poetry Foundation Website: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/detail/69770.
“My child blossoms sadly”
Paris Review, Yehuda Amichai, “The Art of Poetry,” No. 44, Interviewed by Lawrence Joseph, theparisreview.org/interviews/2095/yehuda-amichai-the-art-of-poetry-no-44-yehuda-amichai.
“The Snow Man”
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, Alfred A. Knopf, Random House, New York, 1942, p. 4.
Wallace Stevens: “I shall explain,” The Poems of Our Climate, Harold Bloom, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1976, p. 63.
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Paris Review, Robert Frost, “The Art of Poetry,” No. 2, interviewed by Richard Poirier, theparisreview.org/interviews/4678/robert-frost-the-art-of-poetry-no-2-robert-frost.
“Ars Poetica?”
“There are some kinds of philosophy,” Paris Review, Czesław Miłosz, “The Art of Poetry,” No. 70, Interviewed by Robert Faggen, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1721/czeslaw-milosz-the-art-of-poetry-no-70-czeslaw-milosz.
“Emily Dickinson famously said,” Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic, October, 1891, Emily Dickinson’s Letters, theatlantic.com/past/unbound/poetry/emilyd/edletter.htm.
“January 1, 1965”
Poem was written when Brodsky was in exile. Poetry Foundation information on poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/joseph-brodsky.
“Childhood”
Quotation from Rilke’s letters: Letters to a Young Poet, translation by M. D. Herter Norton, W. W. Norton, New York, 1934, p. 35.
“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Anchor Books, Division of Random House, New York & Canada, 2009, p. 101.
“ ‘Hope’ is the Thing With Feathers”
Emily Dickinson Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic, October 1891, theatlantic.com/past/unbound/poetry/emilyd/edletter.htm.
“My Papa’s Waltz”
Theodore Roethke: “men can experience other people’s experience,” youtube.com/watch?v=aV8h3WqjN9c. McGraw-Hill Films, In a Dark Time: A Film About Theodore Roethke, by David Myers, sponsored by the Poetry Center.
“Poppies in October”
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, by Helen Vendler, Princeton University Press, 2010, Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, p. 68.
“Confession”
Interview with Louise Glück was conducted by Grace Cavalieri for the radio series, “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress,” during the Library’s bicentennial celebration in 2000.
“The Sisters of Sexual Treasure”
“Advice to Young Poets: Sharon Olds in Conversation with Michael Lasky,” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, poets.org/poetsorg/text/advice-young-poets-sharon-olds-conversation.
“Sympathy”
His parents were freed slaves, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, General Editors. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004, p. 905.
“Bright Star”
John Keats: “The principle of beauty,” Selected letters of John Keats, Revised Edition, Edited by Grant F. Scott, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005, p. 272.
“A Blessing”
Paris Review, James Wright, “The Art of Poetry,” No. 19, Interviewed by Peter Stitt. theparisreview.org/interviews/3839/james-wright-the-art-of-poetry-no-19-james-wright.
“My Mother’s Feet”
About Stanley Plumly’s father, Academy of American Poets, poets.org/poetsorg/poet/stanley-plumly from interview, Iowa Review, Vol. 4 no. 4, Fall, 1973.
“Taking the Hands”
Robert Bly: “interested in the connection.” poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/robert-bly.
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
Her biographer Nancy Milford: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Random House, New York, 2001, p. xxii.
“fury”
On Lucille Clifton: The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women’s Literature, Deborah H. Holdstein, Pearson Education: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000, p. 737.
“Diving into the Wreck”
Eavan Boland quote: Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt, Vintage Books, Division of Random House, New York, 2010, p. 856.
“Song for the Last Act”
Richard Howard quotation from Poetry Speaks, p. 150.
Marianne Moore quotation: “compactness compacted.” Poems and New Poems, revised edition by Louise Bogan. Nation, Nov. 15, 1941, p. 486.
“Musée des Beaux Arts”
Paris Review, W. H. Auden, “The Art of Poetry,” No. 17.
Interviewed by Michael Newman. theparisreview.org/interviews/3970/w-h-auden-the-art-of-poetry-no-17w-h-auden.
“One Art”
On Elizabeth Bishop, Colm Toíbín, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2015, p. 4.
“Waking in the Blue”
Robert Lowell: “Confessional Verse,” Michael Schmidt, The Lives of the Poets, p. 814.
Robert Lowell: “A poetry of symptoms,” Michael Schmidt, The Lives of the Poets, p. 815.
Robert Lowell: “Lithium treatment,” The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005, introduction, p. xvii.
Letter to Berryman: The Letters of Robert Lowell, p. 352.
“The Pomegranate”
Eavan Boland: “Motherhood was central,” Smartish Pace, A Poetry Review, Q&A with Eavan Boland, smartishpace.com/
pqa/eavan_boland/.
“Nick and the Candlestick”
Plath: “she said of her poetics,” “A 1962 Sylvia Plath Interview with Peter Orr,” Modern American Poetry, english.illinois.edu/MAPS/POETS/M_R/PLATH/orrinterview.htm.
Plath: Placing her husband’s first book, Keith Sager, “Hughes, Edward James (1930–1988)” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Try to Praise the Mutilated World”
“Zagajewski writes,” “Adam Zagajewski: The Poet of 9/11,” by Matthew Kaminski, Newsweek, newsweek.com/adam-zagajewski-poet-911-67385.
“The Child Is Father to the Man”
William Wordsworth: Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets, p. 499
“Teachers”
W. S. Merwin: “Writing poetry always has,” PBS interview with Bill Moyers, pbs.org/moyers/journal/06262009/transcript1.html.
“The Shadow of Sirius,” PBS interview with Bill Moyers.
Robert Frost: “a lump in the throat,” poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/robert-frost.
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