Selected poems in this work were originally published in the following:
The Academy of American Poets
“Dove, Interrupted”
“A Meadow”
The American Poetry Review
“A Cage Goes in Search of a Bird”
“Considering the Possible Music of Your Hair”
“Dear Shadows,”
“Death, XXL”
“Dove, Abiding”
“Fame Rabies”
“A Girl’s Will”
“Non-Fiction Poem”
“Of Rickey Ray Rector”
“Selected Poem”
The Boston Review
“Bird, Singing”
The Cortland Review
“Miss Ruby Garnett’s Ornament, Circa 1892”
Gulf Coast
“Little Industry of Ghosts”
“The Matador”
Lana Turner
“Of Tookie Williams”
The New Yorker
“For a Snow Leopard in October”
“Heat”
“Infinite Riches in the Smallest Room” (published as “Noctuary”)
“Moon River”
The Paris Review
“Posthumous Seduction”
“Freedom of Speech”
“Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination”
“Notes from the Trepidarium”
“Observations from the Glasgow Coma Scale”
Poetry Magazine
“Carpe Demon”
“Currying the Fallow-Colored Horse”
“Extreme Wisteria”
“Father, in Drawer”
“Gouldian Kit”
“You Have Harnessed Yourself Ridiculously to This World”
Poetry Salzburg
“A Girl Ago”
“Two Girls Ago”
Something Understood: Essays & Poetry for Helen Vendler
“In Owl Weather”
The New Republic
“Just-So Story”