Lacemakers

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Many thanks to the editors of the following publications, where these poems—sometimes in slightly different form or under a different title— appeared: Mid-American Review (“Pearls”) St. Katherine Review (“Flying into Sacramento”) Crab Orchard Review (“Your Father Takes Me Gliding Above the Columbia River”) Louisville Review (“Guardian Home for the Elderly, Alzheimer’’s Wing”) American Literary Review (“Miles Away”) Comstock Review (“How I Devour You in Ten Minutes Flat”) Floating Bridge Review (“How I Devour You in Ten Minutes Flat”) Western Humanities Review (“The Train to Ventimiglia”) Harpur Palate (“Cassiopeia”) Superstition Review (“Other Women’s Men,” “What Remains,” “St. Margaret ’s Well”) Damselfly Press (“The Bus from Strasbourg”) West Wind Review (“One summer we paint your house”) Relief (“Vespers at Brown Trout Lake”) A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Persona Poetry (“Blue Violinist”) A Generation Defining Itself: In Our Own Words (“The Bus from Strasbourg ,” “One summer we paint your house”) I am deeply grateful for the friends, mentors, and colleagues whose aid and encouragement have made this manuscript possible: Cynthia Hogue, John Nieves, Alberto Rios, Norman Dubie, Sally Ball, Tod Marshall, Daniel Butterworth, Scott Cairns, Aliki Barnstone, Gabe Fried, Daniel Tobin, Dinh Vong, Matthew Brennan, Melissa Range, Austin Segrest, Thomas Kane, and others too numerous to list. Special thanks to the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund for their generosity and to Jon Tribble and the staff at Southern Illinois University Press for their dedicated work and their faith in this collection. Finally, thanks to my family—Maureen, Dennis, and Brennan—and to Gordy for their ceaseless love and support. ...