Strings Attached

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to the editors of the following journals for first publishing these poems, some in slightly different versions. A Gathering of Tribes: “Nest”; Ascent: “Touching the Wound”; Bayou: “When You Cannot Sleep”; Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “To Be Fed”; Cadillac Cicatrix: “Defitato”; CALYX: “Quiet Rooms”; Cape Rock: “The Grammar of Memory”; Connecticut Review: “Magritte’s Mother’s Nightgown”; Drumvoices Revue: “Grape Leaves”; Eclipse: “Origami Pantoum”; Evansville Review: “La Vie en Gris”; Flint Hills Review: “Falling in Love at the Speed of the William Tell ‘Overture’”; Gargoyle: “A Day at the Lake With Gertrude Stein”; Gastronomica: “Missing Ingredients”; Green Hills Literary Lantern: “Fish Feel Pain”; George Washington Review: “Margin of Error”; The MacGuffin: “Arranged Marriage,” “Cubist Still Life,” “Postcards of Home and Homesick,” “An Orgasm Is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” “What Would Hitchcock Do?,” “Seeing Like Cézanne,” and “Yellow According to Rilke”; Madison Review: “Milk”; Nimrod: “Childhood Revisited as a Musical” and “Looking for Stephen Dunn”; North Atlantic Review: “In a Dream My Skin”; Owen Wister Review: “How To Fall Gently from the Precarious Pedestal”; Pisgah Review: “Mr. Right”; Poet Lore: “Dreams of My Father”; Sanskrit: “Music from Another Room”; Schuylkill Valley Journal: “The Meaning of Life” and “Last Night I Dreamed I Stole the Croissants”; Scriblerus Press: “Physics for Dummies”; Slipstream: “Punch Drunk Love”; Soundings East: “Reconsidering Yellow”; South Carolina Review: “Weeping Women”; South Dakota Review: “Lee Miller’s Father”; Spillway: “Lost on the Champs-Élysées”; Sulphur River Literary Review: “Creation of Birds” and “Without Child”; Westview: “Happy-Go-Lucky”; Yalobusha Review: “The Way You Look”; Zone 3: “To Lean” A heartfelt thank-you to the following friends and peers who were generously supportive in the making of these poems: Mary Jo Firth Gillett, Elizabeth Volpe, Rebecca Rank Perry, Christine Rhein, Carol Was, Sharron Singleton, Mindy La Pere, and the talented poets in the Tuesday night group. A special thank-you to Annie Martin and the staff at WSU Press for their kind support, to Rafal Olbinski for his marvelous artwork, to John D.Lamb for nurturing us with Springfed Arts, and to M. L. Liebler for making Detroit an enviable literary and music force. ...