| Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following magazines for printing these poems: Agni ("MOVING & ST RAGE"), The Antioch Review ("To a Reader"), Barrow Street ("Her Meditation on the Subject of Universal Phenomena"), Denver Quarterly (''Lacuna, Lacustrine"), The Kenyon Review ("Driving It" & "Sign"), Michigan Quarterly Review ("She Attempts to Tell the Truth About True Romance"), The Missouri Review ("Revisionary Instruments," "Triptych," "Altitude," "Vigil," and "Easter Sunday"), The New Republic ("Portrait of a Girl as the Letter A"), New Virginia Review ("Blue"), The Paris Review ("There Are Plenty of Angels, She Said in the LADIES," "California, She Replied," & "Her Advice to the Still Life Painter"), Ploughshares ("Two Tragedies, with Preface"), Shenandoah ("Grief"), and Southwest Review ("A Vocabulary of Icons"). |
| "Solstice" first appeared in Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets (Anchor/Doubleday, 1989, edited by Nicholas Christopher) and Mountain Intervals: Poems from The Frost Place (Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1987, edited by Donald Sheehan). "The End of the Story" first appeared in Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets (Silver Skates, 1987, edited by Ernesto Trejo & Jon Veinberg). |
| My thanks to the Ingram Merrill Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts for grants which supported the completion of this book. Gratitude also goes to The Frost Place, The Corporation of Yaddo, and, especially, The MacDowell Colony for residencies that allowed me to write many of these poems. To Scott Cairns and Terry Hummer, to Stuart Lishan, Janie Fink, and Mike White, and to the friends, colleagues, and mentors who helped shape this book over the years, my endless thanks. And to A .... |
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