Praise

The American Poetry Series

Vol. 1

Sandra McPherson, Radiation

Vol. 2

David Young, Boxcars

Vol. 3

Al Lee, Time

Vol. 4

James Reiss, The Breathers

Vol. 5

Louise Gluck, The House on Marshland

Vol. 6

David McElroy, Making It Simple

Vol. 7

Dennis Schmitz, Goodwill, Inc.

Vol. 8

John Ashbery, The Double Dream oj Spring

Vol. 9

Lawrence Raab, The Collector oj,Cold Weather

Vol. 10

Stanley Plumly, Out-oj.the-Body Travel

Vol. 11

Louise Bogan, The Blue Estuaries

Vol. 12

John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains

Vol. 13

Laura Jensen, Bad Boats

Vol. 14

John Ashbery, Some Trees

Vol. 15

Sandra McPherson, The Year oj Our Birth

Vol. 16

John Crowe Ransom, Selected Poems

Vol. 17

Robert Hass, Praise

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To Earlene

Some of these poems have been published in the following magazines, to whose editors grateful acknowledgment is made: Antaeus, Atlantic Monthly, Beatitude, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Boundary 2, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and Poetry Nation. "Against Botticelli" first appeared in The American Poetry Anthology. "Winter Morning in Charlottesville" appeared in a chapbook of that title printed by the Sceptre Press, Knotting, Bedfordshire, England. Acknowledgment is also made to Yale University Press for permission to reprint "After Chekhov" which has become one of the "Songs to Survive the Summer." I also want to thank the U.S.-U.K. Exchange Fellow­ ships in the Arts for a grant which allowed me to finish this book.

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