Grateful acknowledgment is made for poems in “New Poems” which originally appeared (although, in some cases, in different form or under different title) in the following publications:
Christianity and Literature: “The Death of a Gerbil”
The Cortland Review: “The Left Fielder’s Sestina.”
Green Mountains Review: “The End of Art”
Gulf Stream: “The Student Assistant”
Image: “Rothko”
Luvina (Mexico): “The Language of the Future”
Mississippi Review: “The Attaché Case”
New Letters: “Alzheimer’s,” “Dust Storm, No Man’s Land, 1952,” “Shakespeare in the Park, 9/11/2011”
Outerbridge: “Swan Lake”
Ploughshares: “The Game,” “A House”
Provincetown Arts: “Abandoned Grain Elevator”
REAL: “Getting Fired,” “Obed Theodore Swearingen, 1883–1967”
River Styx: “Language”
Salt Hill Journal: “Leaving”
Southern Poetry Review: “Betty”
The Virginia Quarterly Review: “Economics,” “Three Girls Tossing Rings”
The Warwick Review (England): “The Men on Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, 1975,” “Pale from the Hand of the Child That Holds It”
Yale Review: “Red Snow,” “The Story.”
“The Story” also appeared in the 2014 PushcartPrize anthology.
“The Student Assistant” was included in Best of the Net 2010.
This is my fourth book with W. W. Norton since Jill Bialosky invited me to submit the manuscript of Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest. She has been a consistently supportive, efficient, and gracious editor, for which I am deeply appreciative. Many thanks, too, to Rebecca Schultz for her expertise and hard work on this project.