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Farrar, Straus and Girous, LLC: Excerpt from "Chemin de Fer" from The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar. Straus and Giroux LLC.

HarperCollins Publishers. Inc.. and Faber and Faber Ltd.: Excerpt from The Night Dances" from Ariel by Sylvia Plath. Copyright © 1966 by Ted Hughes. Rights outside the United States from Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath administered by Faber and Faber Ltd., London. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.. and Faber and Faber Ltd.

Henry Holt and Company, LLC: Excerpts from The Most of It" by Robert Frost from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Con- nery La them. Copyright © 1942 by Robert Frost. Copyright © 1970 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Copyright © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. LLC. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company. LLC.

New Directions Publishing Corporation and Faber and Faber Ltd.: "Canto CXVT from The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1934, 1938. 1948 by Ezra Pound. Rights in the United Kingdom administered by Faber and Faber Ltd., London. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and Faber and Faber Ltd.

Simon Schuster. Inc.. and A.P. Watt Ltd: Excerpts from The Man and the Echo" by William Butler Yeats from The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright © 1940 by Georgie Yeats. Copyright renewed 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michael Butler Yeats, and Anne Yeats. Rights outside the United States administered on behalf of Michael B. Yeats by A.P. Watt Ltd.. London. Reprinted by permission of Simon Schuster. Inc. and A.P. Watt Ltd.

Vintage Books: Excerpt of poem from The Ink Dark Moon by Jane Hirsh- field and Mariko Aratami. Copyright © 1990 by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratami. Reprinted by permission of Vintage Books, a division of Random House. Inc.

Special thanks to the Talmor Zedactur Depositary for providing a VHS copy of "Exploration #4."

All Interior photos by Andrew Bush except pages 549 662 captured by Gil Kofman and page 659 scanned by Tyler Martin.

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What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

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