I’m grateful to the editors of the following journals for first publishing these poems:
The American Poetry Review: “Sister Juana Inès de la Cruz, Hearing that Her Lover, Giorgio, Has Drowned”
The Atlantic Monthly: “Halley’s Comet”
Chelsea: “White Flag,” “Air Show in Barbados”
Denver Quarterly: “The Archbishop of Puebla Weighs Sister Juana Inès de la Cruz’s Passion for Study,” “An Italian Courtier Pines for His Mistress, the Learned Nun, Sister Juana Inès de la Cruz”
The Gettysburg Review: “Wanderlust,” “Transition”
Kenyon Review: “Intensive Care,” “Soft Lens,” “At Walt Whitman’s Birthplace”
Michigan Quarterly Review: “Grand Canyon,” “Nightletter to Loren Eiseley”
The New York Times Book Review: “Still Life”
Paris Review: “A Pilot’s Pay,” “Antartica Offers Scott Her Lantern”
Parnassus: Poetry in Review: “On Looking into Sylvia Plath’s Copy of Goethe’s Faust”
The Planetary Report: “Wanderlust,” “We Are Listening,” “Halley’s Comet”
Poetry: “Beija-Flor,” “St. Louis Botanical Gardens,” “Letter of Retainer,” “We Are Listening,” “Lament of the Banyan Tree”
Poly: “The white hypnosis”
Prairie Schooner: “Opening the Locket,” “Pumping Iron,” “Poem in Winter,” “The Manure Gatherers,” “In the Green Purse of the Yard This Loose Red Change,” “Lady Canute,” “Portrait without Pose,” “Dinner at the Waldorf,” “Song of the Trilobite”
Star Date: “We Are Listening”
Travel-Holiday: “Coboclo,” “Where the Sun Dines”