ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The following poems were published or are about to be published in these journals:

APR: “A Card from Me to Me,” “If it’s True,” “Nothing Personal,” “The First Person”

Catch Up: “Why We Need Unions”

The Georgia Review: “Men Falling,” “In the Land of Superstition,” “Let’s Say”

The Journal of American Poetry: “Call Them All In”

New Letters: “For Some a Mountain,” “The Invisible Man Blues”

New England Review: “At the School for the Deaf”

New Ohio Review: “An Evolution of Prayer”

The New Yorker: “Ambush at Five O’Clock,” “Whereas the Animal I Cannot Help But Be,” “Unnatural,” “Emergings”

The Paris Review: “Creatures,” “The Famous Man,” “In Other Words,” “The Melancholy of the Nude,” “The Owner of the Boutique at Redwood Falls”

Ploughshares: “The Architect”

Plume: “A Short History of Long Ago,” “Moon Song”

Poetry: “Always Something More Beautiful,” “Propositions”

The Southern Review: “Even the Awful,” “The Revolt of the Turtles” (chosen for a 2016 Pushcart Prize)

“Impediment” appeared in Edward Hopper, edited by Gail Levin (Crown Publishers)

Thanks to my faithful and critical readers Lawrence Raab, Barbara Hurd, Philip Dacey, Jill Rosser, Sam Toperoff, and for residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.