Some of the poems of The Face first appeared in these journals:
American Poetry Review
(IX, XX, XXV, XXXIII, XXXVII, & XXXVIII)
Boston Review (XXVI & XL)
Colorado Review (VI, VII, & VIII)
Crazy Horse (XI)
Denver Quarterly (XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, & XXIX)
Pleiades (IV)
Ploughshares (XII, XVII, & XXVII)
Poetry (XIV & XV)
Poetry International (I & II)
RUNES, A Review of Poetry (XXVIII)
Volt (III)
Poem V appeared in September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, edited by William Heyen (Etruscan Press, 2002).
The lines from “Novalis” are drawn from Novalis: Philosophical Writings, translated and edited by Margaret Mahony Stoljar (SUNY Press, 1997).
My thanks to Toni Burge, Norman Dubie, and Susan Terris for their suggestions. Thanks also to my valiant editor, Terry Karten, for her many years of support and wisdom.