The Land We Dreamed: Poems

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The author wishes to express gratitude to the publishers of the journals in which the following poems, sometimes in earlier forms, first appeared: Adena: “The Turtle Clan” (revised from “Turtle”) Bryant Literary Review: “Owl” Louisville Review: “Autumn Snakes,” “Coal” (under the title “Coal: A History”), “Falling Asleep while Hunting,” “First Frost,” “The hard winter” (under the title “Winter”) Open 24 Hours: “The Prophet” (under the title “The Complaint”), “Winter Among the Mystassins” Zone 3: “Boustrophedon” I found valuable primary material, so far as there was a record to read, in the seventeenth century reports of the French Jesuit missionaries , Jesuit Relations, in pieces of the vast collection of writings known as The Draper Manuscripts, and in the journals of George Croghan, Dr. Thomas Walker, Christopher Gist and the autobiography of Allen Trimble. I give my thanks to my friends Lamar Herrin and Jane Gentry for taking the time to read and comment on the early manuscript of this book, and to the staff of Western Kentucky University’s Kentucky Library for their help in locating hard-to-find sources. ...