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“Poems mark a trail of identities; poems laid end to end are a map of the human voice.”
Elizabeth Alexander (pg xvii, Chagnot and Ikkanda, 2017)
Introduction
Ieshia Evans photo: Photo by Jonathan Bachman. Used with permission from Reuters.
Kuzmickas poem: From “Logic Problem.” Used with permission from the author.
Issa poem: Issa, Kobayashi, translated by Robert Hass, 1989. “The man pulling radishes” in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa edited and with an Introduction by Robert Hass. Introduction and selection copyright ©1994 by Robert Hass. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chapter 1: An Age of Flux
Seaside Heights photo: Photo by Julie Dermansky. Used with permission from the photographer.
Pablo Neruda poem: “Ode to the Moon” from Selected Translations, 2000–2020 by Ilan Stavans, 2021. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Elizabeth Alexander poem: Elizabeth Alexander, excerpt from “Praise Song for the Day” from Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990‐ 2010. Copyright © 2008 by Elizabeth Alexander. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Graywolf Press, graywolfpress.org
Amanda Gorman quote (“These are the things…”): From “Monomyth,” Call Us What We Carry. Copyright © 2021 by Amanda Gorman. Used by permission of the author.
Ángel González poem: From Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Ángel González. Milkweed Editions, 1993. Out of print, used ...