For their encouragement, I am indebted to the editors of the following publications, where poems, sometimes in different forms, were originally published:
Ambit: “To a Bat”
The American Poetry Review: “Goya” and “To a Root in Air”
The American Scholar: “Dandelions (III),” “Face of the Bee,” “Gross National Unhappiness,” “Keep Me,” and “On Peeling Potatoes”
The Believer: “Super Bloom”
Los Angeles Review of Books: “Jelly”
The Nation: “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan,” “Gay Bingo at a Pasadena Animal Shelter,” and “Weeping Cherry”
The New Criterion: “The Horsemen” and “To a Snail”
The New Yorker: “Doves” and “On Friendship”
The New York Review of Books: “Black Mushrooms” and “Blizzard”
The Paris Review: “At the Grave of Robert Lowell,” “Corpse Pose,” “Kayaking on the Charles,” “On Pride,” “The Party Tent,” “Red Dawn,” “Rice Pudding” as “No Homecoming,” and “Unstable Air”
Poetry: “Haiku”
Poetry Ireland: “(Re)creation”
Raritan: “Elevation” and “Human Highway”
Salmagundi: “Ginger and Sorrow,” “Lingonberry Jam,” “Man and Kitten,” and “Migrants Devouring the Flesh of a Dead Horse”
The Threepenny Review: “Recycling”
The Times Literary Supplement: “Departure”
Claremont McKenna College commencement poem: “Land of Never-Ending Holes”
I Know Now in Wonder: 25 Poems from the First 25 Years of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Persea Books): “Pheasant”
Poems of Paris (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series): “Paris Is My Seroquel”
I wish to thank the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Blue Mountain Center for their support and friendship.
Cover photograph by Charlie Gross.