acknowledgments
the following poems originally appeared in the following journals:
Agni: "a small number"
The Antioch Review: "six apologies, lord"
can we have our ball back?: "a dry death," "this is the kind of poem i'm
done writing, or, a small pang in spring/' "o great slacker"
The Canary: "keep some stuff for yourself," "aloft in a tangerine cloud"
Conduit: "moorings far faster," "notes toward the ablation of the soul"
FENCE: "poem for my #*th birthday," "she (as sonnet)"
Harvard Review: "a new philosophy of composition, or, how to ignore the non-reasoning creature capable of speeech perched outside your bathroom window," "dis-spelt"
LIT: "to dante and cavalcanti and you," "il penseroso and 1'allegro: inverted and dubbed," "quain"
The Paris Review: "sweet reader, flanneled and hilled," "small quilled poem with no taste for spring"
Ploughshares: "the unbosoming"
Post Road: "the lais of long lost days," "stripped from the waist up, love"
Tin House: "the true repertory of the wrack and redemption of sir olena kalytiak davis," "you art a scholar horatio, speak to it," "poem convincing you to leave your wife," "to love"
Western Humanities Review: "if you are asked"
Verse: "dear abiah," "in the clear long after," "may be you are like me: scared and awake"
"six apologies, lord" was reprinted in Best American Poetry 2000 and The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses 2001.
"sweet reader, flanneled and tulled" was reprinted in Best American Poetry 2001 and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, in which also appeared "a small number," "in the clear long after," and "a new philosophy of composition, or, how to ignore
the non-reasoning creature capable of speeech perched outside your bathroom window."
thanks askold, david, andrew, heather, michael, jim, rob (!) . .. and to all the other kind blind editors.
i am indebted (should be indentured) to the macdowell colony, thank you for my house in the woods full (yet lovely empty)
of doppelgängers and fire.
avgustyn! olyana!
and, finally, jim.