i had wanted to include sylvia platt celebrated poem daddy. we probably although the pollack and wanted to include two others i was going for broke and i wrote to the executor and also the sister of her estranged husband he was rumored to be a ferocious% and all responded that to reprinted daddy would cost me $100. i was paying for the permission fees out of the pistons of the book and is a beginning assistant professor with two kids i had not very much money of my own and the other two poems i asked for were $50 each. that was the beginning of my literary career. i settled for the $50 poem. i struck a bargain in bought one that is quite long and is magnificent between two win it was cheaper than daddy for reasons that we can speculate about. that was my introduction to the business of the of literary anthology as the idealistic young scholar and never occurred to me that poem's could be graded by the ticket price as well as by their quality. that experience changed my a perception of literature for ever and from then on i really understood th