A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line

Acknowledgments and Permissions

Acknowledgments and Permissions Highest thanks go to the contributors to this collection. They have taken considerable time and care with their essays—both those who revised their essays that appeared in the 2008 symposium on the line from Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, and also the great many who joined this project in its present form. Thanks to Jeffrey Pethybridge for the incisive feedback and ideas he offered as the introductory essay came together, and to Roland Greene, Albert Gelpi, Nicholas Jenkins, and Robert Kaufman for their keen attention to earlier incarnations of many of the ideas that found a home in the first part of the introduction. Deep appreciation goes to Alice Fulton, Lynne McMahon, and Sherod Santos. We would like to thank Joseph Parsons, Holly Carver, Lisa Raffensperger, and their colleagues at the University of Iowa Press. Our external reader, Lisa Steinman, offered a generous reading of the manuscript and made many helpful suggestions along the way. Thanks as well to the English Department at the College of Charleston for generous financial and professional support. It is our pleasure to acknowledge a number of publishers and estates for their permission to reprint the following: “Just Walk Away Renee,” from Toxic Flora by Kimiko Hahn. Copyright © 2010 by Kimiko Hahn. Reprinted with permission of W. W. Norton & Company , Inc. Excerpts from “We Did Not Make Ourselves,” from The End of the West by Michael Dickman. Copyright © 2009 by Michael Dickman. Reprinted with permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org. Excerpts from “Mean Free Path,” from Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner. Copyright© 2010 by Ben Lerner. Reprinted with permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org. Excerpts from The Line in Postmodern Poetry by Robert Frank and Henry M. Sayre. 2 | Acknowledgments and Permissions Copyright © 1988 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reprinted with permission of the University of Illinois Press. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Excerpts from “What Are Years?” from The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore. Copyright © 1941 by Marianne Moore, copyright renewed© 1969 by Marianne Moore. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. “We Real Cool,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, is reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions. Excerpts from Paterson, by William Carlos Williams, from Paterson. Copyright© 1946 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted with permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Excerpts from “Spring and All: (XVII)” and “This Is Just to Say,” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909–1939, copyright© 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted with permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. A Broken Thing ...