James Wright, “A Blessing” from Above the River: The Complete Poems. Copyright © 1963 by James Wright. Reprinted with the permission of Wesleyan University Press.
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” from The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1924 by Macmillan Publishing Company, renewed 1952 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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1 *Quoted in the New York Times, 10/01/01, “The Early Intimate Power of Poetry to Console,” by Dinitia Smith. (back to text)
2 *Quoted in the New York Times, 11/1/01, “Poetic History of the Heart,” by Martin Arnold. (back to text)
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