| I would like to express my gratitude to the Radcliffe Institute for its support during the inception of this book, and to the Massachusetts Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, which supported its completion. |
| Versions of many of these poems first appeared in the following periodicals and anthologies: Poetry: This World without Miracles, Ararat, The Glass Paperweight, Animals That Die in Our Houses, An Astronomer's Journal, Landing Off Season, The Princess and the Pea, The Sniper as Axis Mundi, Landscape with Trees, The Sleeper Watched: Three Studies, The Anniversary, and A Letter Sent to Summer. The American Review: Dieting. The Iowa Review: Noon and Doors. The Antioch Review: Epigram of the Smothering Lover. Audience: Home Movies: 1949, The Lifeguard, The Necklace of Anger, and Mud Season: Vermont. Ploughshares: Constantly. The New Republic: Fortunes Pantoum and Witness. padan aram: Skating. The Ohio Journal: Survival Tactics. The Harvard Advocate: Iowa Spring Viewed from a Plane. Best Poems of 1973: The Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards: Ararat. Best Poems of 1975: The Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards: Animals That Die in Our Houses. The Blacksmith Anthology: Sounding the Lake. Ten American Poets: An Anthology of Poems: The Lifeguard, Ararat, Landing Off Season, and Mud Season: Vermont. Out of this World: Poems from the Hawkeye State: Iowa Spring Viewed from a Plane. |
| Special thanks to Barry and Lorrie Goldensohn, Roger Weingarten, Norman Dubie, Mekeel McBride, Bob Grenier, and to Dean Cummins who showed me the eyeless fish. |
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