Acknowledgments

Thanks to the editors of the publications below, in which some of these poems appeared, sometimes in different versions:

A Public Space: “Apprehension”;

Atlas Review: “Which Is the Best Part of the Day?,” “Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography (‘It’s about to rain . . .’)”;

Bennington Review: “Edgemont”;

Colorado Review: “Free”;

Denver Quarterly: “Another Day”;

Gulf Coast: “Low Note,” “Self-Portrait Beside Myself”;

The Mackinac: “Self-Portrait as the Man I’ve Become”;

New American Writing: “Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography (‘How tense it makes me . . .’)”;

The New Republic: “Where Am I?”;

The Paris Review: “Book Review: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford,” “Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography (‘I could not learn . . .’)”;

PEN Poetry Series: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again”;

Poetry International: “Gnostic,” “The Hairdryer Cord Is All Tangled”;

Prairie Schooner: “Night Nurse”;

T: The New York Times Style Magazine: “Video Baby Monitor”;

Tin House: “All Elegies,” “Tracheotomy”;

Women’s Studies Quarterly: “Nest.”

“Another Poem on My Daughter’s Birthday” appeared in Poem-a-Day, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets on Poets.org.

“Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography (‘I could not learn . . .’)” also appeared in the anthology The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from the Paris Review.

Thank you to Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Gabriel Fried, Rusty Morrison, Nick Twemlow, Robyn Schiff, and Rachel Zucker, and of course, Brenda, for lavishing generous attention on these poems.

And Brenda gets a second special thank you: these poems track some wild years, my love, don’t you think?

Enduring gratitude to Purcell Palmer and all at the Catwalk Institute for time, space, and kindness in which this book took shape.