acknowledgments

 

 

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for a Fellowship in Poetry that supported the writing of many of these poems, as well as to Vanderbilt University for a Poindexter Grant for summer research that also provided support. I am grateful to Mark Jarman, dear friend and treasured colleague, for reading these poems in manuscript, and to Ernest Suarez for his literary input and enthusiastic reading.

 

Poems in this collection first appeared as follows:

 

“The Addict’s Mother: Birth Story,” “At the Meetings, They Say Detach with Love,” “The Daughter-in-Law,” “Driving,” “Metaphor-less,” and “Support Group” in Five Points (Fall 2017);

 

“The Addict’s Mother: Birth Story,” “At the Meetings, They Say Detach with Love,” “Detox,” “Driving,” “Getting Clean,” “In the Midst of the Heroin Epidemic,” “Molecules,” “Relapse,” and “Support Group” in Vox Populi, https://voxpopulisphere.com/category/poetry/;

 

“The Beauty” in About Place (2017);

 

“Bikers” in Oxford American (Fall 2018);

 

“Breast Cancer,” “End of the Marriage,” and “Rethinking the Burning of Books” in Blackbird (Fall 2018);

 

“The Diving Platform” in Post Road 29 (2015);

 

“Dog Spelled Backwards” in Presence 2 (2018);

 

“Driving” published in multiple formats by the Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University, including Traveling Stanzas (March 2018);

 

“Flying Home” and “Longing at 60” in Miramar (2016);

 

“Her Barbaric Yawp,” in Connotation Press, http://www.connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/january-2016/2708-kate-daniels-poetry;

 

“Molecules” in New Letters (Fall 2017);

 

“The Punch Bowl: An Elegy” in Birmingham Poetry Review (Fall 2018);

 

“Reading a Biography of Thomas Jefferson in the Months of My Son’s Recovery” in PMS: poemmemoirstory (University of Alabama at Birmingham, February 2016); and in The Mind of Monticello: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Thomas Jefferson (2016);

 

“Sibling Psychology” in Tin House (Fall 2018).

 

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“Molecules” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by New Letters.

 

“Reading a Biography of Thomas Jefferson in the Months of My Son’s Recovery” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by PMS.

 

 

CREDITS

 

First line of “Meditation at Lagunitas” (“All the new thinking is about loss”) from Praise by Robert Hass. Copyright © 1979 by Robert Hass. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

 

“Poem (‘To be idiomatic in a vacuum’)” from The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara by Frank O’Hara, copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O’Hara, copyright renewed 1999 by Maureen O’Hara Granville-Smith and Donald Allen. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

 

“The First Elegy,” translation copyright © 1982 by Stephen Mitchell; from Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission.