Robert Ronnow gratefully acknowledges the use of excerpts from the work of other writers in the following poems:
The Pity of Things
--Kenko, Yoshida, Essays in Idleness, #7, trans. G.B. Sansom, Cosimo Classics, 2005.
--Hoagland, Tony, “Cement Truck”, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Graywolf Press, 2010.
Data Delivered to Your Inbox
--Brooks, Gwendolyn, “A Song in the Front Yard”, Selected Poems, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
--Gluck, Louise, “Mock Orange”, Poems 1962-2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
--Cusk, Rachel, “The Case of Yiyun Li,” New York Review of Books, July 18, 2019.
--Rexroth, Kenneth, “Time Is the Mercy of Eternity”, The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth, Copper Canyon Press, 2004.
--Almeter, Gary, “Ta-Nehisi Coates, Oprah Winfrey, a new novel and a Baltimore success story”, The Baltimore Sun, Oct 3, 2019.
“Saul Bellow once asked, ‘Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?’ You know Tolstoy, the Russian author considered one of the greatest of all time. In response to this, a Sports Illustrated reporter named Ralph Wiley replied, ‘Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus.’”
Colonoscopy
--Dobyns, Stephen, "Spiritual Chickens", Velocities: New and Selected Poems 1966-1992, Penguin Books, 1994.
Quiet
--Snyder,Gary, “Three Deer One Coyote Running in the Snow”, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, Pantheon Books, 1992.
--Page, P.K., “Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree”, Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems, Porcupine's Quill, 2010.
If not one way, then another
--Berlin, Isaiah, Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford University Press, 1990.
More Birds! More Bees!
--Pavel, Barry, Engelke, Peter, and Cimmino, Jeffrey, “Four ways the war in Ukraine might end”, New Atlanticist, March 1, 2022.
Make War, With Love
--Catullus, “By Strangers’ Coasts and Waters” trans. Robert Fitzgerald, The Hudson Review V, 1, Spring, 1952.
Poets Just Wanna Have Fun
--Davis, Wade, “Last of Their Kind: What Is Lost When Cultures Die?,”
Scientific American, September 2010.
Roar of Tinnitus
--Hopkins, Gerard Manley, "Carrion Comfort".
The Imaginary i
--Kahn, Salman, Kahn Academy, Integrated Math 2, Lesson 1: The imaginary unit i, Intro to the imaginary numbers.
Flying. Beeing.
--Cardenal, Ernesto, “Ecology”, trans. Marc Zimmerman, Flights of Victory/Vuelos de Victoria, Curbstone Press, 1995.
--Kasdan, Lawrence and Benedek, Barbara, The Big Chill (film), 1983.
Sweet Want
--Weil, Simone, Gravity and Grace, trans. Emma Crawford & Mario von der Ruhr, Routledge, 1952.
Pull the Knot Tight
--Pilgrim, Timothy, “Wedding Rescue”, Tipton Poetry Journal, Issue #34, Summer 2017.
Drift Speed
--Knight, Randall D., Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Benjamin Cummings, 2007.
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