"At the Ball Game" by William Carlos Williams from Selected Poems,
New Directions, 1969; "Psalm and Lament" by Donald Justice from
The Sunset Maker, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987; "Almost Blue" by Mark Doty
from My Alexandria, University of Illinois Press, 1993; "Notes Toward a
Supreme Fiction" by Wallace Stevens from The Palm at the End of the
Mind, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971; "The Pink Locust" by William Carlos Williams
from Pictures from Brueghel and other poems, New Directions,
1962; "Lester Leaps In" by Al Young from Heaven: Collected Poems
1956-1990, Creative Arts Book Company, 1992; "B Negative" by X. J. Kennedy
from Nude Descending a Staircase, Carnegie Mellon Univer-
sity Press, 1994; "The Walgh-Vogel" by Richard Wilbur from New and
Collected Poems, Harcourt Brace, 1988; "Stone and Flower" by Kenneth Rexroth
from The Collected Shorter Poems, New Directions, 1966;
"'Lear is Gay'" by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems, Liveright Pub-
lishing, 1985; "Jerónimo's House" by Elizabeth Bishop from Collected
Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983; "A Set of Romantic Hymns" by
Robert Duncan from Roots and Branches, New Directions, 1964.

Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional
Forms, edited by Philip Dacey and David Jauss, Harper & Row, 1986.

"The Way to Say Pleasure" by Donald Hall in Poetry and Ambition,
University of Michigan Press, 1988. For a discussion of the verse para-
graph consult the redoubtable Historical Manual of English Prosody by
George Saintsbury, first published in 1910.

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