“The Lost Son” by Theodore Roethke. Copyright © 1948 by
Theodore Roethke. “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke.
Copyright © 1960 by Beatrice Roethke, Administratrix of
the Estate of Theodore Roethke. From The Collected Poems of
Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke. Reprinted by permis-
sion of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell
Publishing Group, Inc.
“All Souls” by May Sarton. From Collected Poems 1930—
by May Sarton. Copyright © 1993 by May Sarton. Reprinted
by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Elegy for My Father” by Mark Strand. From Selected Poems
by Mark Strand. Copyright © 1979, 1980 by Mark Strand.
Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
“Dear Men and Women” by John Hall Wheelock. Reprinted
with permission of Scribner, and imprint of Simon &
Schuster, from Dear Men and Women: New Poems by John Hall
Wheelock. Copyright © 1966 by John Hall Wheelock; copy-
right renewed 1994 by Sally Wheelock Brayton.
“For Dudley” by Richard Wilbur. Excerpt from “For Dudley”
in Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations. Copyright
© 1969 by Richard Wilbur; reprinted by permission of Har-
court Brace & Company.