The Year of Magical Thinking

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Columbia University Press: Excerpt from “Re-Grief Therapy” by Dr. Volkan from Bereavement: Its Psychosocial Aspects, edited by Schoenberg, Gerber, Wiener, Kutscher, Peretz, and Carr. Copyright © 1975 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of Columbia University Press.

Harcourt, Inc. & Faber and Faber Ltd.: Excerpt from “East Coker” in Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot. Copyright © 1940 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1968 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd.

Eugene Kennedy: Excerpt from a letter written by Eugene Kennedy to Joan Didion. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Liveright Publishing Company: Excerpt from “Buffalo Bill’s.” Copyright 1923, 1951, © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1976 by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Company.

Massachusetts Medical Society: Excerpt from “Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest — The Solution Is Shocking” by David J. Callans from The New England Journal of Medicine (August 12, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted by permission of Massachusetts Medical Society.

Earl McGrath: Excerpt from a poem written by Earl McGrath. Reprinted by permission of the author.

New Directions Publishing Corp.: Excerpt from “Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day” by Delmore Schwartz from Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge. Copyright © 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

The New York Times Agency: Excerpt from “Death Comes Knocking” by Bob Herbert from The New York Times (November 12, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission of The New York Times Agency.

Oxford University Press: Excerpt from “Spring and Fall,” “Heaven-Haven,” “No Worst,” and “I Wake and Feel” by Gerard Manley Hopkins from The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 4th ed., edited by W. H. Gardner and N. H. MacKenzie (1970). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Province of the Society of Jesus.

Random House, Inc.: Excerpt from “Funeral Blues,” copyright 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

Viking Penguin: Excerpt from “Self-Pity” by D. H. Lawrence from The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence, edited by V. de Sola Pinto & F. W. Roberts. Copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angelo Ravagli and C. M. Weekley, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.