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  “An East Window on Elizabeth Street,” from Collected Poems by James Schuyler. Copyright © 1993 by the Estate of James Schuyler. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

  “The Book of Ephraim,” from The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill, copyright © 1980, 1982 by James Merrill. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

  “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” copyright © 1974 by John Ashbery, from Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. In the UK, used by permission of Carcanet Press Ltd.

  “In Trust” and “Saturday Night” from Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn. Copyright © 2000 by Thom Gunn. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. UK and BC rights (including Canada) by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

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