Tongue Lyre

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many thanks to the editors of the following journals where these poems first appeared, sometimes as slightly different versions: 2River View (“Aiolos and the Bag of Winds” and “Telemachos”) 32 Poems (“Standing Still”) Antioch Review (“After the Lotus” and “Water Ballad”) Best New Poets 2007 (“Violin Shop”) Cimarron Review (“Proteus” and “Tell Me, Muse”) Connotation Press (“Oracle”) Crab Orchard Review (“Ossuary” and “Tinsel Halo,” chosen for the 2009 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize) Georgia Review (“In the Chapter ‘Rodin in Love’”) Great River Review (“Violinist”) Indiana Review (“Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence by T. C. Mills” and “Violin Shop”) Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction (“Cyclops” and “Nestor”) Nashville Review (“The Sirens”) Spoon River Poetry Review (“Kalypso”) Third Coast (“Performance,” chosen for the 2008 Third Coast Poetry Prize) TriQuarterly Online (“Penelope’s Firebird Weft”) Water~Stone Review (“Odyssey”) When noted, poems draw from these works: Joyce, James. Ulysses. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Odyssey of Homer. New York: Perennial Classics, 1999. Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. Charles Martin. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. ~ vii It is with deep gratitude that I thank my teachers for their generosity and for believing in these poems: Elizabeth Arnold, Michael Collier, Cynthia Hogue, Richard Jackson, Shara McCallum, Stanley Plumly, Christina Pugh, and Michael Waters. I would especially like to thank Stanley Plumly for mentoring this project through its many phases. I am deeply grateful to Lee Ann Roripaugh for selecting my manuscript for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. I would also like to thank Jon Tribble, Allison Joseph, and the Crab Orchard Review staff for their invaluable editorial work. Many thanks also go to Karl Kageff, Hannah K. New, and everyone at Southern Illinois University Press for making this book possible. It is with deep gratitude that I thank my parents for their love and support , and my brother and sister for their friendship. I thank my friends for everything they have taught me. And last, I thank Arik deeply, for his love. ~ My reader, this book is for you. viii ...