The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005

Acknowledgments

123 Acknowledgments My deepest grattude to famly and frends who contnuously support my work and to the group of frends who helped me make prelmnary choces about poems to nclude n ths specal collecton of my poetry. I would lke to especally thank to Dr. Yu Hs of He Nan Buddhst Temple and Monastery n Tawan for gvng me sanctuary and Florella Orowan of FLAR for helpng me to make the final preparatons of the manuscrpt of ths collecton. My grattude also to Dr. Perng Chng Hs, who gave me my Chnese name n 2002, to Mr. Be Ta, who made an addton to that name three years later, and to Professor Tess Onwueme, who gave me my Ibo name n 1997, whle I was poet-n-resdence at the Stadler Poetry Center at Bucknell Unversty. Some of the poems n ths collecton were prevously publshed, sometmes n slghtly dfferent forms, n the followng sources: Journals: 5A.M.; African-AmericanReview; AmericanPoetryReview; Callaloo; canwehaveourballback.com;Pequod; Plum:AJournal. Anthologes: ConversationPieces:PoemsthatTalktoOtherPoems; Jazz Poems; Poems,Poets,Poetry: AnIntroductionandAnthology; UndertheRock Umbrella:ContemporaryPoetsfrom1951to1977. Collectons:WaterSong (Callaloo Press/Unversty of Vrgna, 1985); MyFather’sGeography (Unversty of Pttsburgh Press, 1992); Stations inaDream (Dolphn Moon Press, 1993); TimberandPrayer (Unversty of Pttsburgh Press, 1995); Talisman (Ta Chucha Press/Northwestern Unversty, 1998); SandyPoint (The Press of Appletree Alley, 2000); Multitudes (Sarabande Books, 2000); TheTenLightsofGod (Bucknell Unversty Press, 2001). ...