Some of the poems in this collection first appeared in:
The Academy of American Poets “Poem-a-Day”: Alexandr Blok.
The American Poetry Review: A Hard & Noble Patience; Aperture; Reckless Wing; Hot Night in Akron; Silver & Black; To Those Who Have Asked Anna.
American Poets: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets: Above Sunset.
Antaeus: Slow Dance; Song Without Forgiveness; The Day of the Sentry; The Man in the Yellow Gloves; Terraces of Rain; I Know; Merlin; The Figure You; Night.
Blackbird: The Darkroom.
Crazy Horse: Meridian.
The Denver Quarterly: Lucifer in Starlight; Stories; The Auroras (“Ghost Aurora”; “Aurore Parisienne”; “Père Lachaise”; “The Book”; “Dark Aurora”)
FIELD: The Auroras (“Dawn Aurora”; “Lago di Como”; “Autumn”; “Florentine Aurora”); Pasternak & the Snowy Heron; The Old Wave.
The Gettysburg Review: Last Night with Rafaella.
Great River Review: My Life as Sandoz Mescaline; Damian’s Tale; The Black Jaguar; and Script for the Lost Reflection.
The Harvard Review: Beeches.
Inertia: An Ecclesiastical Sketchbook; Backstreets; Little Sur.
The Kenyon Review: Late Oracle Sonnet; The Auroras (“The Aurora Called Destiny”; “The Swan”; “The Aurora of the Midnight Ink”); In Bangkok.
Literary Imagination: Hungry Ghost; Creque Alley; The Empty Frame.
The Los Angeles Review of Books: To a Story.
The New Yorker: Iris; Dolls; Gin; Hush; The Shore; Blue Waves; Guitar; Hotel Sierra; Until the Sea Is Dead; Desire; The Reef; Shadow; The Swan at Sheffield Park; Leap of Faith; Without Mercy, the Rains Continued.
The Paris Review: The Park.
Poetry: The Avenues; Elegy; The Boathouse; Woman & Leopard; Rhapsody; In the High Country; From a Bridge; The Last Troubadour.
RUNES: Gypsy Davy’s Flute of Rain.
The Southern Review: The Aurora of the New Mind; The Aurora of the Lost Dulcimer; Where He Came Down; The Way It Is; When My Baby Rocks the Funk; The One Who Should Write My Elegy Is Dead; Vineyard; Lucky; Generation; Equivalents; Emanations.
Spillway: Evangeline & Her Sisters; The Stones of Venice.
Tin House: Above Sunset.
The Yale Review: Chevalier d’Or.
“The Aurora of the New Mind” also appeared in The Best American Poetry of 2008.
“Elegy” also appeared in The Pushcart Prize IV (1979).
“Emanations” also appeared in The Best American Poetry of 2017.
“Last Night with Rafaella” also appeared in The Best American Poetry of 1990.
“Late Oracle Sonnet” also appeared in The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII (2014).
“Lucifer in Starlight” also appeared in The Best American Poetry of 1992.
“Merlin” also appeared in The Best American Poetry of 1991.
“Vineyard” also appeared in The Best American Poetry of 2016.
To Daniel Halpern, Terry Karten, Jessica Faust, and Susan Terris: endless thanks for their longtime editorial support.
To my children: David, Andrew, and Vivienne, and to Anna Journey, love everlasting.