CONSTANCE MERRITT - A Protocol for Touch (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 7)
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Previous winners of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Scott Cairns, Series Editor
1993
Partial Eclipse by Tony Sanders selected by Richard Howard
1994
Delirium by Barbara Hamby selected by Cynthia Macdonald
1995
The Sublime by Jonathan Holden selected by Yusef Komunyakaa
1996
American Crawl by Paul Allen selected by Sydney Lea
1997
Soul Data by Mark Svenvold selected by Heather McHugh
1998
MOVING & ST RAGE by Kathy Fagan selected by T. R. Hummer
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A Protocol for Touch
Constance Merritt Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Eleanor Wilner, Judge
University of North Texas Press Denton, Texas
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Disclaimer: Some images in the original hard copy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright 1999 Constance Merritt
First edition 2000
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
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The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, z39.48.1984. Bind materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Merritt, Constance, 1966 A protocol for touch: poems / by Constance Merritt.1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57441-083-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Title. PS3563.E74536 P76 2000 811'.54-dc21 99-054652
Design by Angela Schmitt Cover art by Jonathon Green, Bathing, 1990, Oil on canvas 51" x 70" Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following periodicals, in which some of the poems in this volume first appeared:
American Literary Review: "Genesis," "Ghazal," ''Miserykids on the Line"
Callaloo: "Avant Garde," "Lullaby," "The Mute Swan"
The Disability Rag & Resource: "The Bride," "Etude for Memory and Guitar," "A Study in Perspective"
Higginson Journal: "The Mother's Seduction"
Nebraska Humanities: "The Check-Out Lady at the IGA," "Roses"
Rocky Mountain Review: "Bitches on the Bright Side," "A Protocol for Touch"
The Women's Review of Books: "Offering"
"Lullaby," "The Mute Swan," and "Woman of Color" also appear in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon UP, 2000).
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for my mother, father, and grandmother first strands in the braid of life
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Physical wholeness is not something we have barring accident; it is itself accidental, an accident of infancy, like a baby's fontanel or the egg-tooth on a hatchling.
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