ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I thank the editors of the following journals:

Poetry: selections from Beautiful Boyfriend

Northwest Review: Formosan Elegy

The New Republic: selections from Nocturnes and Cougar Sinonymous

The Iowa Review: Summer Sleep

Paterson Review: Alba

Parnassus: Twenty Five Haiku

Poets.org: One Child Has Brown Eyes

Ploughshares: Study Hall, Deterritorialized

Poet Lore: Costume Drama

Crate: The Great Escape

Prairie Schooner: Every Woman Is Her Own Chimera

Cimarron Review: Naked I Come, Naked I Go

Provincetown Arts: Horns

Meridians: Kalifornia

I thank the following foundations and institutions for their generous support: the Gaea Foundation (Sea Change residency), the United States Artists Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation (residency at Bellagio), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard, the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, the Headlands Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, and San Diego State University.

I thank the wise and kind Martha Collins who helped me reorder the splendid beast. I thank my valiant brother Bob Grunst who has been my faithful first reader for many years. I thank many friends and family members for their boundless generosity during my times of grief. A kiss of gratitude to sister poet Harriet Levin, brother poet Henri Cole, surrogate mother Dorothea Kehler.

I thank Jill Bialosky, sister writer and editor extraordinaire, for her continuous support. I thank Sandy Dijkstra, my inspiring agent, for her tireless encouragement. I thank the hardworking posses and girl gangs in both the W. W. Norton and S.D.L.A. offices . . . particularly, I want to shout out to Elise Capron and Andrea Cavallaro.

I thank Don Lonewolf Romero, my eternal love: our short life together was pure, unexpurgated joy!