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Acknowledgments

xv Acknowledgments Poems have previously appeared in various publications, as follows: Certain Personae: “Kwansaba for Richard Wright” (2008), “Kwansaba for Amiri Baraka” (2005), and “Kwansaba for Jayne Cortez” (2006), Drumvoices Revue (tribute issues). “Song for Angela Davis in the Women’s House of Detention,” Children of the House Afire / More Notes on 94th Street (1976), reprinted and revised in New York Poems (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005). “Naked Woman Walks Down the Street,” Conversation with a Stonemason (New York: IKON, 2003). “Chanel, Arbus, Duccio,” And Then 14 (2008): 98; “Lincoln’s Summer House,” And Then 15 (2010): 56. “John Updike and My Mother,” Long Island Sounds: 2009, An Anthology of Poetry (Southampton, N.Y.: North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2009). Mostly Political: “April is the cruellest month,” Orbis 148 (2009): 60. “Email Surveillance,” issue 38, and “Turtle ,” Shabdaguchha, tenth anniversary issue 40 (2008): 4. “Polar Icecaps,” http://www.poetz.com/2008/dhmelhem. htm. “Daybreak,” Confrontation 104 (Summer 2009): 166. “Capitalism,” Children of the House Afire / More Notes on 94th Street (1976); sections 1 and 2 reprinted in New York Poems (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, xvi 2005); section 3, from Country: An Organic Poem (Merrick , N.Y.: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1998). “April 2004,” Newsday, April 30, 2004. “A Chipped Tooth,” The Long-Islander, “Walt’s Corner,” January 14, 2010, p. A9. “New York Epic,” Banipal (United Kingdom) 29 (Summer 2007): 31–33. Wars: “Those Policemen Are Sleeping,” first published http://www.poetz.com/2002/dhmelhem.htm (2002); reprinted in Birthed from Scorched Hearts (Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2008) and in Poets for Palestine (New York: Al Jisser Group, 2008). “To My Unknown Sister in Beirut,” And Not Surrender: American Poets on Lebanon (Washington, D.C.: Arab American Cultural Foundation , 1982); slightly modified in Conversation with a Stonemason (New York: IKON, 2003). “Gulf War” was first published in Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists, ed. Joanna Kadi (Boston: South End Press, 1994); it was subsequently published in Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, ed. Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne J. M. Mamary (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). “Delivering Mail in Fallujah,” Home Planet News 52 (2005): 2. “Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale,” Home Planet News 60 (2008): 18. “Service for the Dead,” Home Planet News 56 (2007): 17. “Bombing Blues,” Mizna 2, no. 1 (2001). “Suicide Bomber,” Mizna 11, no. 1 (2009): 28. “Just Breathing,” Al Jadid 13–14 nos. 58–59 (2007–2008): 17. “Some Questions for a Missile,” Al Jadid 9, no. 44 (2003): 6. “Artillerymen in the Shower,” http://www. poetrybay.com/winter2005/index_winter2005.html.“For Gaza,” Socialism and Democracy 23, no. 2 (July 2009): 116. “Hecuba to Hector” and “Variations on a Theme by xvii Andrea Mantegna,” Conversation with a Stonemason (New York: IKON, 2003). To all the above and to their editors, grateful acknowledgment is made. • Once again I extend my deepest gratitude to Mary Selden Evans for her ever-replenishing faith in all my work. Lynn P. Hoppel designed a brilliant cover. My appreciation to the editorial/production staff for their diligent attention. To Dana Marie Vogel, first reader of my poetry, and to Gregory Melhem Vogel, first reader of my prose, I remain profoundly indebted for critical help and judgment. To George Meyer, my joy in his steadfast poetic regard. ...