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Lucille Clifton, “the lesson of the falling leaves” from The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 1987 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.

  Robert Creeley, “For Love” from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975. Copyright © 1962 by Robert Creeley. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of the Estate of Robert Creeley.

  E. E. Cummings, “i carry your heart with me” from Complete Poems: 1904–1962, edited by George J. Firmage. Copyright 1926, 1954, © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1985 by George James Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

  Faiz Ahmed Faiz, “Do Not Ask Me For That Love Again” from The Rebel’s Silhouette, translated by Agha Shahid Ali. Copyright © 1991 by University of Massachusetts Press.

  Federico García Lorca, “Ditty of First Desire,” from Collected Poems translated by Christopher Maurer. Copyright © 1991 by Catherine Brown, William Bryant Logan, Alan S. Trueblood, and Christopher Maurer. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.

  Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi, “Absolutely Clear” from The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz (New York: Penguin, 2003). Copyright © 1996 and 2003 by Daniel Ladinsky and used with his permission.

  Langston Hughes, “Love Song for Lucinda” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of the Harold Ober Associates, Inc. and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

  Ono no Komachi, “The Three Japanese Tankas” “Should the World of Love,” “Since My Heart Placed Me,” and “How Sad The I Hope” from The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan by Jane Hirshfield. Translation copyright © 1990 by Jane Hirshfield. Used by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

  Ogden Nash, “A Word to Husbands” from Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband. Copyright © 1964 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted with the permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. and the Carlton Publishing Group.

  Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XVI” from 100 Love Sonnets, translated by Stephen Tapscott. Copyright © 1959 by Pablo Neruda and Fundación Pablo Neruda. Copyright © 1986 by the University of Texas Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Texas Press.

  Jacques Prévert, “The Garden” from Paroles, translated by Laurence Ferlinghetti. Copyright © 1958 by Laurence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of City Lights Books, www.citylights.com.

  Adrienne Rich, “Twenty-One Love Poems: II” from Collected Poems 1950–2012. Copyright © 2016, 2013 by The Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. Copyright © 1978 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Love Song” from New Poems, translated by Joseph Cadora. Copyright © 2014 by Joseph Cadora. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

  Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

  Mark Strand, “Harmony in the Boudoir” and “Our Masterpiece is the Private Life” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 2014 by Mark Strand. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

  Wislawa Szymborska, “Openness” from Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak. Copyright © 2001 by Joanna Trzeciak. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Tumi Sandhyar Meghamala, “You are a Cluster of Clouds,” translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Reprinted by permission.

  Tu Fu, “Dreaming of Li Po” (part I), from Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese, translated by Sam Hamill. Copyright © 2000 by Sam Hamill. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of http://www.shambhala.com./Tiger Bark Press, www.tigerbarkpress.com.

  Derek Walcott, “Love After Love” from The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013. Copyright © 2014 by Derek Walcott, selected by Glyn Maxwell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC and Faber & Faber, Ltd.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Making a book is always a collaboration. For their generous help putting the manuscript together, we would like to thank Maggie Gallagher, Katje Richstatter, and permissions expert Fred Courtright. We would also like to thank our editor Bridget Watson Payne, Ana Mendez-Villamil, art director Kristen Hewitt, and the team at Chronicle Books for their wonderful work. A special thanks to Jennifer Orkin Lewis for her gorgeous illustrations.

  JESSICA STRAND is a cultural programmer, writer, and interviewer. She developed a series of cultural dialogues between writers, artists, cartoonists, filmmakers, and other artists at the Strand Bookstore. From these programs, she edited a collection of interviews in Upstairs at the Strand. When she moved to the New York Public Library, she created and hosted Books at Noon, a weekly live interview series featuring well-known authors. She is also the author of twelve books. She lives in Brooklyn.

  LESLIE JONATH is a book packager specializing in illustrated books on food, art, and design. She is the author of over twenty books including The Little Pleasures of Paris and Give Yourself a Gold Star. She lives in San Francisco.