| Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which some of these poems have appeared: |
 | | Another Chicago Magazine: "The Language of Bees" and "My Sin." |
| | Confrontation: "Killer Bees Are Sighted in Belize" and "Regarding Insects in General." |
| | The Iowa Review: "James Atkins, Irlandese," "The Ovary Tattoo," "St. Anthony of the Floating Larynx," and "Toska.'' |
| | The Ledge: "Ova" and "Betrothal in B minor." |
| | Mississippi Mud: "The Beatification of St. Lucy." |
| | Negative Capability: "To Italy," "Keats' Disease Addresses Him in the Voice of Mr. Lovelace, Nemesis of Clarissa Harlowe in the Eponymous Novel Which Keats Finishes Reading (in Nine Volumes) the Night Before He Leaves Naples," "Dr. Clark Examines Keats upon His Arrival in Rome," "Signora Angeletti Discusses Her Two Boarders (with recipe)," "Lt. Isaac Marmaduke Elton and Keats on La Principessa Borghese (ne Pauline Bonaparte), Marble and Flesh," "The Autopsy of John Keats," and "Dust." |
| | New Laurel Review: "The Dada of Bees." |
| | The Paris Review: "Delirium" and "Nose." |
| | Southern Humanities Review: "Eating Bees." |
| | Western Humanities Review: "Deception" and "St. Clare's Underwear." |
| | Some of the poems in this volume appeared in two chapbooks Eating Bees (Pittsburgh: New Sins Press, 1992) and Skin (Eugene, Oregon: Silverfish Review Press, 1995), which was winner of the Gerald Cable Poetry Chapbook Award. |
| | "The Language of Bees," "The Ovary Tattoo," and "St. Anthony of the Floating Larynx" appeared in the anthology Isle of Flowers (Anhinga Press, 1995). |
| | The writing of these poems was made possible by a grant from the Florida Arts Council and the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs. |
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