ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Some of these poems have been published previously, often in earlier versions:

	Bark:	“Heaven for Arden”; “Heaven for Beau”
	Bloom:	“The Hood”
	Columbia:	“The Bootblack”
	Electronic Poetry Review:	“Signal”
	Green Mountains Review:	“Meditation: ‘The Night of Time’”; “The Pink Poppy”
	London Review of Books:	“Heaven for Helen”; “Heaven for Paul”; “The Hours”; “Notebook / To Lucian Freud / On the Veil”
	Lyric:	“Now You’re an Animal”; “Time and the Town”; “To García Lorca”
	Magma:	“To Caravaggio”
	New Yorker:	“In the Same Space”
	Ninth Letter:	“Flit”
	Poetry London:	“In Their Flight”
	Rattapalax:	“Shahid’s Couplet”
	Rattle:	“Letter to God”
	Shenandoah:	“Fire to Fire”; “Late Flight”
	Slate:	“Ultrasound”
	The Threepenny Review:	“The Stairs”
	Virginia Quarterly Review:	“School of the Arts”

“Flit” was commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as part of Wild Reckoning: An Anthology Provoked by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (2004).

 

“The Hours” was commissioned by the Research Institute at the John Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

 

“To García Lorca” was commissioned by Poetry International, London, 2002, as a response to Poet in New York.

 

“Fire to Fire” appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing 2004.

 

Some of these poems appeared in Fire to Fire, a limited edition letter press volume published by Sutton Hoo Press.

 

I am grateful to the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund, and to the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, for assistance that made the writing of these poems possible.