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xi Acknowledgments Gratefulacknowledgmentismadetothereadersandeditorsofthe followingpublications,inwhichthesepoems,sometimesinslightly differentversions,firstappeared: Columbia:AJournalLiteratureofandArt—“MyDearestRegret” ControlledBurn—“AubadewithStarlingsandKeroseneMutedbyGlass” CrabOrchardReview—“OntheMotionsofDeath,”“Aubadewitha ThistleBushHoldingSixSongs,”and“EpitaphfortheMusculature oftheNeck” CRATE—“MyDearestApostasy”and“Fury” DickinsonReview—“WhattheDeadSaid”and“WhattheEyeSaid” TheDrunkenBoat—“WideningAubade”and“AubadewithaHeelof Bread,aHeart,andtheDevil” FromtheFishouse—“HourofDawn”and“Messengers” Hayden’sFerryReview—“GodEssay”and“PrayerEssay” Image:Art,Faith,Mystery—“AubadewithConstellations, SomeHorses,andSnow” L.A.Review—“OntheFenestraOvalis” NorthAmericanReview—“OntheEpidermis”and“AubadewiththeMoon, SomeBones,andaWord” PaintedBrideQuarterly—“MyDearestConflict” PassagesNorth—“AubadewithaBookandtheRattlefromaStringof Pearls” Pleiades—“WhattheEarSaid” Runes—“AubadewithMemoryCrystallizedintoaFigureofaDancer” Siren—“Flutter,”“Hush,”“ConstrictingAubade,”and“Aubadewith ScorpionsandMonsoon” SonoraReview—“TheDevil’sBook” Sou’wester—“Holiness” Vespertine—“Aporia” “AubadewithaBookandtheRattlefromaStringofPearls,”“Aubade withaThistleBushHoldingSixSongs,”“AubadewithMemory CrystallizedintoaFigureofaDancer,”“MyDearestRecklessness,” xii and“MyDearestRegret”appearinPoetry30:ThirtysomethingAmerican ThirtysomethingPoets.EditedbyDanCrockerandGerryLaFemina, publishedbyMammothBooksin2005. “AubadewithBreadfortheSparrows”appearsinContemporaryVoicesfrom theEasternWorld:AnAnthologyofPoems.EditedbyTinaChang,Nathalie Handal,andRaviShankar,publishedbyW.W.NortonandCompany in2007. IgivethankstoWesternWashingtonUniversity,UticaCollege,Northern MichiganUniversity,andGettysburgCollegefortheirsupport.Apoetry fellowshipfromtheNewYorkFoundationfortheArtswasalsoof invaluablehelp.Finally,Iamgratefultomywife,Meredith,andfriends andmentorsAlbertoRíos,BeckianFritz-Goldberg,NormanDubie, JeanneE.Clark,EugeneGloria,NickCarbó,DeniseDuhamel,Sarah Gambito,JonPineda,JosephLegaspi,PaoloJavier,BinoRealuyo,Rick Barot,RigobertoGonzález,AimeeNezhukumatathil,PatrickRosal, BarbaraJaneReyes,CamilleDungy,JonTribble,AllisonJoseph,Austin Hummell,SteveScafidiJr.,EvelinaGalang,FredLeebron,Kathryn Rhett,BruceBeasley,SuzannePaola,BrendaMiller,EileenTabios,April Ossmann,AdrianMatejka,StaceyLynnBrown,SueAllspaw,Papatya Bucak,MaryKenagy,ArgieManolis,andRodneyJones,whoIforgotto thankinmyhurrylasttime. ...