Whirlwind

Acknowledgements

77 Acknowledgements With gratitude to the following publications where these poems first appeared, some in earlier versions: Alaska Quarterly Review: “For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly” Antioch Review: “The Shell” Best American Poetry Blog (online): “Gypsy Ballad” Barrow Street: “Unpairing: Proofreading My Marriage” The Cortland Review (online): “Sunglasses in the Subway” Court Green: “From the Cricket Cage” Drunken Boat (online): “The Shame of the Adulterer’s Wife” Ducts (online): “Scenes From an Ideal Marriage” 5 a.m.: “To the Furies Who Visited Me in the Basement of Duane Reade” 580 Split: “Rags Meant” Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics (online): “Ode to Nitrous Oxide” Iowa Review: “Inamorato: A Triolet,” “With You” MARGIE: “After My Husband Moved Out His Things” new American Writing: “Desire and the Lack” new Republic: “Sisypha Retires” nOR (new Ohio Review): “Playing My Part” Parthenon West: “Char’d Endings” Ploughshares: “The Tip” Poetry International: “Duende” Pool: “Should Have” Prairie Schooner: “Phonography,” “Forward Sestina (Dylanesque)” RunES: “As Ants, in Their Dark Company, Will Touch” Southampton Review: “The Necklace,” “For the Alabaster Figure From the Cyclades,” “Foehn” 78 acknowledgements Spillway: “I Dreamed We Were” Washington Square Review: “Not A Vase” “To the Furies Who Visited Me in the Basement of Duane Reade” was awarded The Pushcart Prize and published in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, vol. 35, ed. Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press, 2011). “For the Alabaster Figure From the Cyclades” was reprinted in Phati’tude: A Literary Magazine, in the issue “Ekphrasis: A Conversation Between Poets & Artists.” “Char’d Endings” was reprinted in The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press, 2011). “For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly” was reprinted in Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology, ed. Ann Fisher Wirth and LauraGray Street (Trinity University Press, 2012). “Inamorato: A Triolet” was reprinted in Discoveries: new Writing from The Iowa Review (The University of Iowa Press, 2012). I want to thank all of my friends and fellow poets who have believed in me and helped me through the whirlwind. Special thanks to Jeff Friedman, Phillis Levin, Ellen Geist, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Evan Eisenberg, and Ruby Namdar for their astute suggestions. I owe a depth of gratitude to Ed Ochester for being a judicious editor and for giving a home to this book. Finally, I want to express my appreciation to The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and Fundación Valparaiso, where some of these poems were written or revised. ...