Thanks are due to the editors of the following magazines in which some of these poems first appeared:
The Cincinnati Review (“A Romance”)
Colorado Review (“Children’s Day” and “The Fall of Man”)
Five Points (“Primitive”)
The Florida Review (“A Daughter of the Puritans” and “Down Here”)
Interim (“Three Pages”)
The Nation (“Second Best”)
New England Review (“At Chartres”)
New Letters (“Too Bad” and “War and Peace”)
The New Yorker (“Bottle of Wine” and “Former Lives”)
Salmagundi (“Dependence Day” and “Sunday with Trees”)
Seneca Review (“The Right Time”)
This manuscript has benefited greatly from careful readings by several critical friends: Charles Altieri, Thomas Centolella, Alan Feldman, Mark Halliday, Philip Schultz, and Emily Wheeler.
“Dependence Day” is for Thomas Centolella.
“Simon Pell” is for Alan Feldman.
“In Traffic” is for Philip Schultz.