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ix Thanks to the following publications where some of these poems previously appeared: Best American Poetry 2001: “Contemporary American Poetry” (originally in Poetry) Denver Quarterly: “Family Happiness”; “Old Post Card from the Jura” Iowa Review: “A Visit from My Sister (c. 1982)” JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association: “After Watching Twyla Tharp” Kenyon Review: “A Memoir”; “Dissolving the Boundaries”; “On the Mooring” Larcom Review: “On Memorial Drive” Mediphors: “For Sam” The Nation: “A Visit from the Tree Man”; “Early Spring” North American Review: “Self-Portrait” Poetry: “Beside the Broad Dordogne”; “Bill Evans Plays Never Let Me Go”; “My Century”; “The Back of the Building” Press: “Listening to Keats” Threepenny Review: “Girls in the Museum”; “Reason” Virginia Quarterly Review: “Pavane”; “This Fog”; “On Brattle Street”; “Girl with Sunflower in Hand” Acknowledgments x ...

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