Empire

Acknowledgments

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s To the editors of the following journals in which some of these poems (or earlier versions of them) originally appeared: Afugabe: “Memory from a Bone Sample” Cortland Review: “Many Years After” Event Magazine: “After the Death of Pancho Villa” From the Fishhouse: “After Sex” Gulf Coast: “Sappho,” “Migration” The Homestead Review: “Cortés and Cannon” Indiana Review: “The Only Thing I Imagine Luz Villa Admires about Her Husband’s Gun—” Louisiana Literature: “A Question,” “A Daughter” The Massachusetts Review: “Here We Are” New England Review: “Mexico, 1910” Ocho #15: “The Wild Pink,” “Between the House and the Hill,” “Esta Palabra” Pistola: “Missing Mariachi,” “ Primavera,” “Ode to Water” The Rumpus: “On Language” The Seattle Review: “Blue Alert,” “The Last Line” Seneca Review: “Chimayo, New Mexico” Solo: “Christmas 1964,” “Caught in the Eye of the Sun” 2002 Women in Literature and Letters Anthology: Mamibaile: “Empire #1: Five and Dime Store, 1949” To the following organizations for their material and financial support: the Vermont Studio Center, Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, WILL: Women in Literature and Letters, Poetry for the People, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the National Endowment for the Arts; To Eduardo C. Corral and David Buuck for offering critical feedback; To Shane Book for all of it including many editorial comments, discussions, book suggestions, support, and inspiration; To my editor Kristin Buckles, production editor Nancy Arora, and the University of Arizona Press staff for their dedication to the artful rendering of this book; To my loving family: Luis and Lupe Candelaria, Maria Christina Candelaria, Gabriela Candelaria, Juan Candelaria, Leticia Allen, Maria “Pete” Bagula, and my nephew, nieces, cousins, tíos, and tías for their laughter, wit, and joy; To Aaron Brick for his knowledge of the Spanish language, curiosity, and love; To friends and teachers who have guided, inspired, and encouraged me: Philip Levine, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, the P4P poets at UC Berkeley, Brian Spears, Gregory Pardlo, Michael Collier, Samantha Liapes, Stacy Mohammed, Kimberly Jean Smith, Angie Cruz, Marta Lucía Vargas, Camille Dungy, Fran Lozano, Kinan Valdez, Scott Browning, Christopher D. Meyer, Adrienne Torf, James Hall, Erin Crook, Celia Marquez, Ruben Gonzales, Gina Franco, Francisco Aragón, Annabrown Griswold, and Lauren Muller. ...