American Flamingo

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments My thanks to the editors of the following publications in which these poems appeared (sometimes in slightly different form): The Atlantic Monthly—“American Flamingo” and “Fog” (Part 10 of “Album”) Big Sky Journal—“Bitterroot Car-Body Riprap” Black Warrior Review—“Whatever Happened to J.C.?” and “Evening News” (Parts 2 and 3 of “Elegy for the Duke of Earl”) Cutbank—“The Ani” and “Remember the Moose” DoubleTake—“Zahkia” Gulf Coast—“Practice” and “The Rose” Headwaters: Montana Writers on Water and Wilderness—“Bitterroot Car-Body Riprap” Louisville Review—“Trying to Judge” (Part 3 of “Album”) Luna—“Keet Seel,” “Morphine,” and “Unfinished Story” Mid-American Review—“Bitterroot Car-Body Riprap” and “The Flying Red Horse” (Part 1 of “Elegy for the Duke of Earl”) Ploughshares—“Snow Storm” Poetry—“Image on a Sandstone Disc” Quarterly West—“Kindness of Strangers,” “As Sparks Fly Upward,” and “Fireworks” Shenandoah—“First Hour” and “Indian River” Talking River Review—“Green,” “For Clay” (Part 1 of “Album”), and “Animals” Natural Bridge—“We Are” Some of these poems appeared in a limited edition chapbook entitled Small Pleasures, Lagniappe Press, 1994. Special thanks to Chris Dombrowski, Nana Lampton, Malena Mörling, Sena Jeter Naslund, Tammy Ramsey, and Frank X Walker for friendship, encouragement, and support. Thanks to Richard Cecil. Thanks also to my family: Irene, Larry, and Kay Pape, Dr. Arthur J. Prange Jr., Sally Bowen Prange, Kevin Woodman, Marnie, Coleman, and Clay. x 1 American Flamingo 2 ...