Poems, 1957–1967

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments MANY of these poemsfirst appeared in publications other than volumes by the author. For their courtesy in granting permission to reprint and in assigning copyrights, grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following : Atlantic Monthly, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Bulletin (Sydney, Australia), Choice, Commentary, Encounter, Harper's Magazine, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, North American Review, Paris Review,PartisanReview, Poetry, Poetry Dial, Quarterly Review of Literature, Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Review, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, TransatlanticReview, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yale Review. Among poems originally printed in Poetry are these: 'The Being," "A Dog Sleeping on my Feet,” "Dover: Believing in Kings," "The Firebombing," "A Folk Singer of the Thirties," "The Hospital Window," "Inside the River," and Part II of "On the Coosawattee." Poems that first appeared in The New Yorker include the following: "Angina ," "At Darien Bridge," "The Aura," "A Birth," "Buckdancer's Choice," "Bums, on Waking," "Cherrylog Road," "Coming Back to America," "The Common Grave,” "The Driver," "The Dusk of Horses," "Encounter in the Cage Country," "The Escape," "Falling," "False Youth: Two Seasons (II)," "Fence Wire," "For the Nightly Ascent of the Hunter Orion over a Forest Clearing," "Goodbye to Serpents," "The Heaven of Animals," "Hedge Life," "The Ice Skin," "In the Marble Quarry," "In the Mountain Tent," "In the Tree House at Night," "Kudzu," "The Lifeguard," "Listening to Foxhounds," "The Magus," "The Movement of Fish," "The Poisoned Man," "Power and Light," "Reincarnation (I)," "The Salt Marsh," "The Scarred Girl," "The Shark's Parlor," "Snakebite," "Sun," "Them, Crying," "Trees and Cattle," "The Underground Stream," "Walking on Water," "The War Wound," Part I of "On the Coosawattee," and a slightly shorter version of "Slave Quarters." Acknowledgments x v This page intentionally left blank ...