Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968–1993

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many poems from my previous books were first published in magazines and anthologies, which are acknowledged here: From Dangers (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1977): Harper's Magazine: "Excerpt from an Argument with Enthusiasts, Concerning Inspiration," "Solitary's Solace in the Natural Sciences" (under the title "Spinster Discourses on the Natural Sciences"). The New Yorker. "It is 70 degrees in late November. Opening a window, you nearly know," "Spectacles." American Poetry Review. "Against a Dark Field." Seneca Review. "Pupil." Antioch Review. "Ozone," "The Score" (under the title "Playing the Numbers"). Antaeus: "Double Agent." From A World of Difference (Houghton Mifflin, 1981): American Poetry Review. "Hag," "High Jinx." Aspen Leaves: "Breath," "Whoosh." Green House: "At a Loss" (under the title "Pro Quo"). Hudson River Review. "When the Future Is Black." Moons and Lion Tailes: "The Nymph to Narcissus." MSS: "The Fall" (under the title "The Meaning of Fall"), "The Field." The New Yorker. "Toward an Understanding" (under the title "On Time"). Paris Review: "North Island Songs," "Inside." Ploughshares: "Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley." Poetry. "Mind." Poetry Miscellany. "The House." Virginia Quarterly Review. "Impressionist." From To the Quick (Wesleyan University Press, 1987): Poems from the book first appeared in the following magazines: The American Poetry Review, Antaeus, The Atlantic, Harvard Magazine, Kayak, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Science 84, Seneca Review , Tendril. Some of the poems also appeared in anthologies: TheAntaeus Anthology , The Generation0/2000: Contemporary American Poets; The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets; New American Poets of the 80 s; The Norton Introduction to Literature. From Shades (Wesleyan University Press, 1988): Poems from the book first appeared in the following magazines: Boston Review, Exquisite Corpse, Harvard Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sonora Review, Threepenny Review . Poems also appeared in the following anthologies: New American Poets of the 8o's; The Norton Introduction to Literature. Among the new poems in Hinge & Sign, the following appeared in journals and anthologies: "Dry Time," "Some Kind of Pine," and "Two St. Petersburgs" in Jacaranda Review. "Tornado Survivor" in Gargoyle and Editor's Choice (Spirit That Moves Us Press). "Glimpse of Main Event" and "Amniotic" in Agni Review. "Place Where Things Got" in the Godine Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. "The Mirror" in The Journal. "What He Thought" in Tikkun. "Scenes from a Death" in Western Humanities Review. "Well" (under the title "Intensive Care") in Boston Review and, as part of a much longer poem, in How(ever). "Numberless," "The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary," and "Connubial " in Iowa Review. "Window: Thing as Participle," "Unfilled (there is much unsaid)," and "Sound Mind and Roses" in Virginia Quarterly Review. "Acts of God (Lightning)" in The Cresset (Valparaiso University). "A Hurricane Can Cast" and "Coming" in The American Voice. "To Go," "For a Sad God," and "The Song Calls the Star Little" in The Eloquent Edge. "Better or Worse" (under the title "Nothing I Foresaw") and "For A Man" in Decade. "What Hell Is," "By Faith Not Sight," and "Third Person Neuter" in Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS (ed. Michael Klein, Persea Books, New York, 1992). The series "32 Adults" grew out of a collaborative project with artist Tom Phillips, whose collages provoked this quiltwork of pieces. They first appeared in a 1990 edition by Richard Minsky (New York) and the Talfourd Press (London), under the title Where Are They Now? I owe debts of thanks and affection to those who have given me encouragement and support over the past twenty-five years: my parents; my brother and sister; Gregory Biss; Kurt Biss and Raya Garbousova (my second parents); Ellen Bryant Voigt and all the writers I've known at the MFA Program for Writers (originally at Goddard College and now at Warren Wilson College); also extraordinary colleagues at the MFA Writing Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, the Writers' Workshop in Iowa, Syracuse University, U.C. Berkeley and Irvine, and a host of lively programs I've visited around the country. As honorary godmother to Bryan Gardner, I've enjoyed an extraordinary 218 Acknowledgments friendship for fourteen years now; his good spirits and affection have meant more to me than I can say. Grants from the following endowments made possible some of my most undistracted times of teaching and writing—the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace /Reader's Digest Program administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. I've been...