| Copyright 1951, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 by James Wright |
| For permission to reprint some of these poems and for assigning copyrights to him, the author wishes to make due acknowledgment to the editors of the following periodicals and books: |
| Assay; Atlantic Monthly; Audience; Avon Book of Modern Writing No. 1: Best Articles and Stories; Big Table; Botteghe Oscure; Chelsea; Chicago Review; Choice; The Distinctive Voice; The Fifties; Fresco; The Guinness Book of Poetry; Harper's Bazaar; Harper's Magazine; Hika; Hudson Review; Kenyon Review; London Magazine; Minnesota Review; The Nation; New American Review; New Orleans Poetry Journal; The New Poets of England and America; New World Writing No. 9; The New York Times; Pacific Spectator; Paris Review; Quarterly Review of Literature; Saturday Review; Sense and Sensibility in Twentieth-Century Writing; Sewance Review; The Sixties; Stand; Truth; University of Connecticut Fine Arts Magazine; University of Kansas City Review; Western Review; Where Is Vietnam?; Yale Review and Yale University Press, original publisher of his book The Green Wall. |
| Several of these poems first appeared in The New Yorker, including "Before a Cashier's Window in a Department Store," "By a Lake in Minnesota," "Echo for the Promise of Georg Trakl's Life," "Evening,'' "For the Marsh's Birthday," "Poems to a Brown Cricket," "The Quest," "Red Jacket's Grave," "A Secret Gratitude," "Speak," "What the Earth Asked Me," and "My Grandmother's Ghost." |
| Among poems that first appeared in Poetry are "The Life," "The Lights in the Hallway," "Listening to Mourners," "Old Age Compensation," "Outside Fargo, North Dakota," and "Sitting in a Small Screenhouse on a Summer Morning." |
| The translations from Jimnez first appeared in Fresco. Those from Guilln were originally printed in Cantico: A Selection, edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Those from Neruda, Trakl, and Vallejo were first published in Twenty Poems of Pablo Neruda, Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl, and Twenty Poems of Csar Vallejo, under the editorship of Robert Bly. |
| Thanks are due to Mr. John Crowe Ransom and his associates for the Kenyon Review Fellowship in Poetry (1958), which made possible the completion of Saint Judas. The author is grateful also to three particular friends: Miss Mary Bly, for her self and for the poem which bears her name; Heinrich Heine, for his beautiful song "Aus alten Mrchen winkt es"; and Allen Tate, for his friendship in a difficult time. |
| Wesleyan University Press |
| Published by University Press of New England |
| Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 |
Paperback ISBN: 0-8195-6022-7
Cloth ISBN: 0-8195-4031-5
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-142727
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