Robert Ronnow gratefully acknowledges the use of excerpts from the work of other writers in the following poems:
The Scariest Stanza in All of Poetry
--Kristof, Nicholas, "Gifts That Say You Care", New York Times, December 3, 2011.
--Moravia, Alberto, "Poetry and the Novel", Threepenny Review, Summer, 1987
--Harris, Roy, The Origin of Writing, Open Court Publishing Co., 1986
Uncertainty
--Iyer, Pico, The Man Within My Head, Vintage Books, 2013
The Happy Tectonics
--Vass, Arpad A., "Dust to Dust: The Brief, Eventful Afterlife of a Human Corpse," Scientific American, August, 2010
Watching Homer Struggle
--cummings, e.e., "anyone lived in a pretty how town", Complete Poems, 1904-1962, ed. George J. Firmage, Liveright Publishing Corp., 1973.
Popper v. Niebuhr
--Niebuhr, Reinhold, Moral Man and Immoral Society, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932
--Popper, Karl, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Princeton University Press, 1962
The World Without the Self
--Nye, Naomi Shihab, "Pakistan with Open Arms", Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, The Eighth Mountain Press, 1995
--Milosz, Czeslaw, Partisan Review, Summer 1996
-- Jeffers, Robinson, "The Deer Lay Down Their Bones", The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, 1953
--Snyder, Gary, "Axe Handles", No Nature: New and Selected Poems, Pantheon Books, 1992
--Shakespeare, William, "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?", Romeo and Juliet, II, ii, 2
--Matsuo Basho, "The temple bell stops", trans. Robert Bly, The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems, Beacon Press, 1971
--Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "He Had His Dream", The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, University of Virginia Press, 1993
The force that placed us here cannot be trusted
--Whitman, Walt, "Would you hear of an old-time sea fight?", Song of Myself, 35
--Corbiere, Tristan , "Letter from Mexico", trans. William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems, Northwestern University Press, 1997
--Brown, Sterling A., "Master and Man", The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, HarperCollins Publishers, 1980
--Cardenal, Ernesto, "Ecology", trans. Marc Zimmerman, Flights of Victory/Vuelos de Victoria, Curbstone Press, 1995
--Bowen, Kevin, "Incoming", Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong, Curbstone Press, 1995
--Milosz, Czeslaw, "Dedication", trans. Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems, The Ecco Press, 2003
--Young Bear, Ray A., "A Drive to Lone Ranger", The Invisible Musician, Holy Cow! Press, 1996
Either Way
--Emerson, Ralph Waldo, "The Poet"
--Stills, Stephen, "Love the One You're With"
Derivatives With Limits
Strayhorn, Billy, "Maybe," as sung by Lena Horn, We'll Be Together Again, 1994.
Larkin, Philip, "This Be the Verse," Collected Poems, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.
Kinnell, Galway, "The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible" A New Selected Poems, Mariner Books, 2001.
Mortal Poets
-- Heaney,Seamus, RTE Radio 1, September 1997
--Collins, Billy, The Exeter News, 6 May 2005
--Milosz, Czeslaw, Partisan Review, Summer 1996
--Yeats, William Butler, "Lapis Lazuli," The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, The Macmillan Co., 1940.
--Eliot, T.S., The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1950
--Taylor, James, "Shower the People", as performed on Live, 1993.
--Vendler, Helen, The Breaking of Style, Harvard University Press, 1995
--Ryan, Kay, The Yale Review, April 2004
Words/Day
--Kingston, Maxine Hong, "Idea!: Four-word poems!", To Be the Poet, Harvard University Press, 2002
By the Seat of the Soul's Pants
--Zukav, Gary, The Seat of the Soul, Free Press, 1990
--McGarey, William A., The Edgar Cayce Remedies, Bantam Books, 1983
Fundamental Physics
--Alpert, David, "Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe", NY Times Book Review, August 12, 2011
--Deutsch, David, The Beginning of Infinity, Viking Press, 2011
Jack's Commitments
--Heaney, Seamus, The Sunday Times, 30 January 2000
--Heaney, Seamus, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 January 1989
Problems
--Francis, Robert, "Old Roofs", Collected Poems: 1936-1976, University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
Get the Most Out of Life of Pi
--Heifetz, Ronald, Leadership Without Easy Answers, Harvard University Press, 1994.
--Martel, Yann, Life of Pi, Mariner Books, 2003, as visualized in the film by Ang Lee.
--Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, III, i, 55-87.
World Order
--Friedman, Thomas L., "What's Their Plan? Obama's Strategy for Fighting ISIS Isn't All About Us", New York Times, September 14, 2014
--Homer, As when the winds, ascending by degrees, The Iliad, trans. Alexander Pope, Penguin Books, 1996.
--Micklethwait, John, "As the World Turns: Henry Kissinger's "World Order"", NY Times Book Review, September 14, 2014
--Ray, David, "To a Child of Baghdad", Music of Time: Selected & New Poems, The Backwaters Press, 2006.
All the Worlds There Are
--Wikipedia, "Omega"
Brodmann Area 4
--Brecht, Bertolt, "Motto" trans. John Willett & "Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar" trans. H.R. Hays, Selected Poems Bertolt Brecht, Grove/Atlantic, 1947.
Purposes as Incomprehensible and Wonderful as These Purposes
--Big Virge, "Troubled Times", All Poetry.
--Herbert, George, "Prayer".
--Sophocles, Antigone, Greek, trans. Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald from The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1939.
The Scientific Way To Do Mathematics
--McGinn, Colin, "What Can Your Neurons Tell You?", New York Review of Books, July 11, 2013
Copyright 2013 by Robert Ronnow.