373Text Credits
I thank the copyright holders for permission to reprint the following poems or
poem extracts.
A. R. Ammons: “Easter Morning,” Copyright © 1979 by A. R. Ammons. “Expres-
sions of Sea Level,” Copyright © 1964 by A. R. Ammons, from The Selected
Poems, Expanded Edition by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Nor-
ton & Company, Inc. “Small Song,” copyright © 1969, 1986, 1972 by A. R.
Ammons. “Corsons Inlet,” copyright © 1963 by A. R. Ammons, from Collected
Poems, 1951–1971 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc. “Motion’s Holding,” from Sumerian Vistas by A. R. Ammons.
Copyright © 1987 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc. “Enough,” from The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons, by
A. R. Ammons. Copyright © 1990 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “The Sap Is Gone Out of the Trees” and “So
I Said I Am Ezra,” from Ommateum: With Doxology by A. R. Ammons. Copy-
right © 1955 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Com-
pany, Inc.
Bash ̄o: “Lightning Flash,” from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bash ̄o, Buson, and
Issa,edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Introduction and selec-
tion copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Unless otherwise noted, all translations
copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins
Publishers.
Elizabeth Bishop: “Poem” and excerpts from “The Moose,” “The Fish,” “The
Armadillo,” “Questions of Travel,” and “Santarém,” from The Complete Poems,
1927–1979. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by
permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.
Buson: “Morning Breeze,” from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bash ̄o, Buson,
and Issa, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Introduction and
selection copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Unless otherwise noted, all trans-
lations copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Reprinted by permission of Harper-
Collins Publishers.