From the Fire Hills

Acknowledgments

ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications, in which poems from this book first appeared: American Literary Review—“The Last Crusade” Birmingham Poetry Review—“Limoncello,” “San Luca,” and “Waterwalkers” Boston Review—“Survival Italian” Copper Nickel—“Anthem” Crab Orchard Review—“The Gothic Line,” “In Ravenna,” “Ossi di Morto,” and “Truffle” Green Mountains Review—“Bellagio,” “Lovers in the Capuchin Crypt,” “The Screaming Toddler in Santa Maria Novella,” and “The Subjunctive Mood” The Journal—“Hole in the Heart” Michigan Quarterly Review—“Aerial” North American Review—“The Churches of Italy” and “The Grief Industry” Passages North—“The Grotesque” A Poetry Congeries—“Blood Orange” Ploughshares—“Labor Days” River Styx—“Dispensation” Sou’wester—“Pantelleria” Subtropics—“Controlled Burn” 32 Poems Magazine—“Elegy,” “Exile,” “From the New Republic,” and “Soft Costs” Thanks to Gwen and Gary Davidson, Bob and Jane Hill, Eric Smith, Scott McDaniel, Jon Tribble, Allison Joseph, and everyone at Southern Illinois University Press. And to Gregory Fraser, John Poch, and Austin Hummell: if these poems seem at times as much yours as mine, that’s because they are. FROM THE FIRE HILLS ...