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I am grateful to Andrew McNeillie for his unstinting support during the develop-
ment of this book. I have also profited from the advice and expertise of Eva Nyika,
Tom Perridge, Jacqueline Baker, and Jean Van Altena. The contributors suffered
my cajoling emails with good grace. My final and largest debt is to my wife, Fiona.
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‘More Light! More Light!, from COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS by Anthony Hecht,
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John Balaban, ‘In Celebration of Spring’ fromLocusts at the Edge of Summer:
New and Selected Poems.Copyright1997 by John Balaban. Reprinted with the
permission of Copper Canyon Press, http://www.coppercanyonpress.org
‘Dead Soldiers’, fromThe Memory of War and Children in Exile: Peom 1968–1983.
Copyright1983 by James Fenton. Reprinted by permission of PFD on behalf of
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Robert Lowell, ‘Women, Children, Babies, Cows, Cats’ and ‘Fall 1961’, from
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