Another Way to Play

A Seven Stories Press First Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lally, Michael, 1942- author. | Myles, Eileen, writer of introduction.
Title: Another way to play : poems 1960-2017 / Michael Lally ; introduction
by Eileen Myles.
Description: A Seven Stories Press first edition. | New York : Seven Stories
Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017056451 | ISBN 9781609808303 (paperback)
Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / American / General.
Classification: LCC PS3562.A414 A6 2018 | DDC 811/.54--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017003722

Thanks to all the editors and publishers of the books, anthologies, and magazines these poems appeared in and to those who helped or inspired me with some of these poems, especially: Hey Lady and Morgan Press, Some Of Us Press, The Stone Wall Press, Blue Wind Press, Wyrd Press, Salt Lick Press, Vehicle Editions, Jordan Davies, Hanging Loose Press, Little Caesar, Coffee House Press, Quiet Lion Press, Black Sparrow Press, Libellum and Charta Presses, Word Palace Press; and Morgan Gibson, Peter Schjeldahl, Robert Slater, Lee Lally, Ed Cox, Tina Darragh, Ed Zahniser, Kim Merker, George and Lucy Mattingly, Janey Tannenbaum, Jim Haining, Annabel Lee, Bob Hershon, Ron Schreiber, Dick Lourie, Emmet Jarrett, Mark Pawlak, Susan Campbell, Alex Katz, Dennis Cooper, Lynn Goldsmith, Edie Baskin, Allan Kornblum, Brian Christopher, John Martin, Vincent Katz, Paul Portuges, Ray DiPalma, Aram Saroyan, Eve Brandstein, Eileen Myles, Ted Berrigan, Karen Allen, Jamie Rose, Hubert Selby Jr., Gus Van Sant, Paul Abruzzo, Dan Simon, Rachel E. Dicken, and to all I am forgetting, and last but not least my lifelong “irreplaceable” friend and consultant on all things poetic, Terence Winch, and my children Caitlin, Miles, and Flynn.