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This volume is devoted to all them that have learned to love place; to them that have sat still long enough to notice themselves outside of themselves.

And, for Christina and Redmond on the occasion of their marriage. Many blessings!

—Tom

“We spend our whole lives in the same place and never leave . . .”

Charles Wright, “Returned to the Yaak Cabin, I Overhear an Old Greek Song,” in Appalachia

“Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepared for poetry. A conscientious interest in it is worse than no interest at all, as I believe Frost used to say. It’s like a very faint star. If you look straight at it you can’t see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.

“If people around you are in favor, that helps poetry to be, to exist. It disappears under disfavor. There are things you know, human things, that depend on commitment; poetry is one of those things. If you analyze it away, it’s gone. It would be like boiling a watch to see what makes it tick.”

William Stafford,Writing the Australian Crawl