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Acknowledgments
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications where many of these poems first appeared: Boulevard: “The Accomplice” The Georgia Review: “Albert Einstein Held Me in His Arms”; “This Poem Had Better Be about the World We Actually Live In”; “Uncle Bud, Unshaken in the Wake of Sputnik: October 1957” MARGIE/American Journal of Poetry: “The Flamingos Have Left the Building”; “Home Movies of the Space Race”; “No More Mail from Baltimore”; “Not Exactly Rocket Science” Natural Bridge: “The Only Time There Is” New Letters: “The All-Dressed-Up-and-Going-Nowhere Ghosts”; “A Brief History of the Moon in Twentieth-Century Song, and Then Some”; “Goodbye to the Blockhead”; “How the Visiting Poet Ended Up in the Abandoned Nike Missile Silo in Pacific, Missouri, after Surviving a Morning of Grade-School Classroom Appearances on Behalf of One of the Better Impulses in the History of Human Behavior” New Ohio Review: “In My Dream, Coleman Hawkins” River Styx: “A Pocket Guide to Trouble” Third Coast: “All Night and Always”; “So Much Gone and Going” TriQuarterly: “The Perfect Stranger” WordVirtual.com: “The Chicago Cowboy” (excerpts); “The Difference a Day Makes” (excerpts) “The Accomplice” was published in The Conspiracy Quartet (Garlic Press). “Albert Einstein Held Me in His Arms” was reprinted on the Poetry Daily website (www.poems.com), in the online version of Discover (www.discovermagazine.com), ACknoWLEDGmEntS and in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, edited by Alice Calaprice (Princeton University Press). “How the Visiting Poet Ended Up . . .” was reprinted on the Poetry Daily website. “Jack Ruby’s America” was published in a limited edition by Garlic Press. “Jack Ruby Talks Business with the New Girl” was published in The Low End of Higher Things (University of Wisconsin Press). “Maybe Just One Poem in This Fecund Spring . . .” was included in Observable Readings: 2006–2007 (Observable Books). “A Pocket Guide to Trouble” was reprinted in Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else, edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby (University of Georgia Press). “This Poem Had Better Be about the World We Actually Live In” was reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2010, edited by David Lehman and Amy Gerstler (Scribner). In addition to the aforementioned editors, a small handful of assiduous civilian-readers egged me on: Murray Farish, Pete Genovese, the late Dave Hilton, Ron Koertge, David Lee, Dale Woolery . . . and especially Patricia—she of the unerring eye and ear—who never fails to help me measure up, word by precarious word. In all but a single instance, I took her word for a better one; probably I should have turned “angora” into “cashmere,” too. Readers should feel free to nod and make that substitution when they get there. Special thanks to the dean of Webster University’s College of Arts & Sciences, David Wilson, for his generous support of the eccentric research that underpins several of these poems. My gratitude also to the folks at the University of Wisconsin Press, especially Katie Malchow in acquisitions, who expertly shepherded the manuscript early on, and editor Adam Mehring, whose careful attention and spirited commentary provided me with a copyedited manuscript that was a real pleasure to respond to. With genuine grace and good humor, these two put up with one compulsive writer—and lived to tell about it, no doubt . . . [44.200.144.68] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:56 GMT) And here, now textured like a blotter, like the going years And difficult to see, is where you are, and where I am, And where the oceans cover us. —Weldon Kees, “Travels in North America” [44.200.144.68] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:56 GMT) ...