I am most grateful to Bernard Grebanier, poet, critic, and Professor Emeritus of Poetry at Brooklyn College, for his advice and encouragement regarding Lover's Credo.
     The photograph of Gustav Vigeland's sculpture, reproduced as frontispiece and on the jacket cover, is by David Finn and is used with his kind permission.
     The photograph of Auguste Rodin's sculpture, "Eternal Springtime," is reproduced by the kind permission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917.
     The poem "Lover's Chant" was first published in A Humanist Wedding Service by Corliss Lamont (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1971). I thank Prometheus Books for permission to reprint.
     The poem "Completion" was first published in The Humanist, which I thank for permission to reprint.