The Palace of Bones

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I would like to thank the editors of the journals and anthologies in which various poems first appeared: Salmagundi, Willow Springs, Columbia (New York), Michigan Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Kalliope, Poetry Ireland Review, Puerto del Sol, New Orleans Review, Poet Lore, Pleiades, American Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, Third Coast, Cyphers (U.K.), Stand (U.K.), Poets for the Millennium (Bradshaw Books, Ireland, 1999), Tabla Book of New Verse (University of Bristol, England), Introduction Series 5 (Windows Publications, Ireland, 1998), and The Best of Pif Magazine (Fusion Press, Texas, 1999). The poem “Canvas” won first place in the Long Poem Section of the Scottish International Poetry Competition. I would like to thank Paul Perry, Fred D’Aguiar, and John Balaban for their encouragement and thoughtful criticism, as well as the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, County Monaghan, Ireland, where many of these poems were written. I am also grateful for the James A. Michener Fellowship, which provided me the ability to start this collection . v You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...