Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which these previously uncollected poems first appeared:
The American Scholar: Easter Island; Finish
Electronic Poetry Review: Spiderweb
McSweeney’s: Dogleg
The New Yorker: The Edges of Time
The Paris Review: Bitter Pill
Parnassus: Virga; Stations; Retroactive
Poetry: Polish and Balm; We’re Building the
Ship as We Sail It; Train-Track Figure;
Pentimenti (earlier version); Repetition; Cut Out
for It; Bait Goat; Cloud
The Threepenny Review: The Pharaohs;
Odd Blocks; Ledge; Still Life with Lemons,
Oranges and a Rose
The Yale Review: Galápago
I am grateful to Randy Blasing, editor of Copper Beech Press, who gave my work its first chance and who has now generously allowed many of the poems from Flamingo Watching to be reprinted here.
And special thanks to Atsuro Riley who helped me put this manuscript together without Carol.