“Special Orders,” “My Father's Track-and-Field Medal, 1932,” and “Cold Calls” are dedicated to Kurt Hirsch (1913 2002).
Special thanks to the editors of the following publications where these poems, some of which have been revised, first appeared:
A Book for Daniel Stern, Gulf Coast: “Bounty”
Alaska Quarterly Review: “ Happiness Writes White”
The American Poetry Review: “Cotton Candy,” “Playing the Odds,” “Man Without a Face,” “To My Shadow,” “A New Theology,” “I Wish I Could Paint You,” “After a Long Insomniac Night”
Five Points: “My Father's Track-and-Field Medal, 1932,” “Elegy for the Jewish Villages,” “Kraków, 6 A.M.”
The Hopkins Review: “The Sweetness”
Image: “More Than Halfway,” under the title “Poem at 45”
McSweeney's: “To D.B.”
The New Republic: “Cold Calls”
The New Yorker: “The Chardin Exhibition,” “Self-portrait,” “Boy with a Headset,” and “A Partial History of My Stupidity”
The New York Review of Books: “Special Orders”
The New York Times: “Green Figs”
The Paris Review: “On the Rhine,” “Green Night”
Per Contra: “The Minimalist Museum”
Ploughshares: “Soutine: A Show of Still Lifes”
Poetry: “Branch Library,” “The Swimmers,” “Late March”
Rattapallax: “Second-Story Warehouse”
Slate: “Gnostic Gospels,” “Green Couch”
The Threepenny Review: “To the Subway”
TriQuarterly: “A Few Encounters with My Face”