Some of these poems first appeared in the following journals: Alehouse, American Poetry Review, A Public Space, Barrow Street, Bayou, Boston Review, Catch Up, Cincinnati Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Dritto, Field, Fourteen Hills, Granta, Gulf Coast, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Harvard Advocate, Indiana Review, linebreak.org, Nashville Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, NOÖ Journal, PEN Poetry Series, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Poetry.org (Poem-a-Day), Sonora Review, Southern California Review, Subtropics, The Journal, The Laurel Review, The Morning News, The New Republic, The Normal School, Tin House, TriQuarterly, Washington Square, Yale Review, Yalobusha Review and Zyzzyva.
“Bugcatching at Twilight” appeared in The Best American Poetry 2011 (Scribner, 2011), edited by Kevin Young.
“Landscape with Sections of Aqueduct” was reprinted in Poetry Calendar 2010 (Alhambra Publishing, Belgium, 2009). “Pupil” was reprinted in Poetry Calendar 2011 (Alhambra Publishing, Belgium, 2010).
“Landscape with Figures Partially Erased” was reprinted on Poetry Daily.
“Release the Sterile Moths” was reprinted on Verse Daily.
“Goodbye, My Fancy” was reprinted in New California Writing: 2012 (Heyday Books, 2012).
“Do the Hustle” was produced by Court Green as a limited edition broadside.
“Orchard in January” was printed as a limited edition broadside by Bow & Arrow Press for Emory University’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series.
“Cherry Blossoms in Spring,” “College City Market, College City, CA,” “Landscape with Temple, Mosque and Little Crosses,” “The Kiwi Comes to Gridley, CA,” “Do the Hustle,” “The Fluffer Talks of Eternity,” “Pupil,” and “Almonds in Bloom” appeared in the chapbook How Must Might Stain, part of the Dory Reader Series from Small Anchor Press.
“Panic in the Year Zero” was delivered at the 220th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises at Harvard University on 25 May 2010 and simultaneously printed in Harvard Magazine online and in the Harvard Gazette.
“The Great Unrest” was written for OccupyWriters.com. This poem is in the public domain and may be reprinted or distributed freely.
My thanks to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a fellowship that greatly assisted in the completion of this book. Thanks to those who read and responded to portions of the manuscript while it was in progress: Jeff Shotts, Ryan Courtwright, Carol Ciavonne, Katie Ford, Sidney Wade, John Casteen, Kevin Prufer, J. Peter Moore, Jake Kelly, Austin Smith, Michael Theune, Peter Covino, Ryan Berg, Randall Mann, Cody Carvel, Susan Steinberg, John Beer, Matthew Siegel, Sho Sho Smith, Sam Witt, Rachel Zucker, Peter Kline, Luke Sykora, Christine Marshall, Andrew Rahal, Vincent Guerra, Joanna Klink, Luke Goebel, Walt Hunter, Louise Glück, Bruce Snider, Christopher Davis, David Trinidad, Max Andrews, and T. J. DiFrancesco.
And of invaluable service has been the assistance of Michael O’Donnell. Thanks, Mike.