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Acknowledgments

77 Acknowledgments Much gratitude to the editors of the following publications, in which these poems first appeared, sometimes in earlier incarnations: Barrow Street: “Lost Things”; Beloit Poetry Journal: “The Bat”; BigCity Lit: “Claim”; Crab Orchard Review: “Entering the Bath”; Faultline: “Butterflies at Santa Cruz”; 5 AM: “Bottle Gentian,” “Foxgloves,” “Girl in the Backseat, Wisconsin Winter,” “It moves,” “Wild Blackberries,” and “Wood”; Global City Review: “Rufous-Sided Towhee”; Hawaii Pacific Review: “No Letters”; Lumina: “Girl with Pigeons”; Manhattan Review: “The Missing Women,” “Girl, 9, Secretly Snips a Lock of Another Student’s Hair,” and “Sassafras”; Many Mountains Moving: “The Gift”; Marlboro Review: “The Fire Road” and “Two Owls”; Poet Lore: “Consolation”; Prairie Schooner: “Cave Painting, Font-de-Gaume”; Puerto del Sol: “Skin”; Runes: “Mackerel Sky” and “The Selkie Returns to the Sea”; Salamander: “Race Track, Hialeah, FL,” “To Swim,” “The Underpainting,” and “Window and Field”; Southern Poetry Review: “A Field Guide to North American Wildflowers” (as “Guidebook”). “His Letter” appeared in American Diaspora (University of Iowa Press), edited by Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave. “Cave Painting, Font-de-Gaume” has been reproduced from Prairie Schooner 79, no. 1 (Spring 2005) by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press. “Bottle Gentian” was featured on Verse Daily’s website (www.versedaily .com). The epigraph for “A Kind of Vanishing” is from Kristin Prevallet’s I, Afterlife and is used with permission by Essay Press. 78 The italicized text in “A Fragment of Sappho” is from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, copyright © 2002 by Anne Carson. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House. I am beyond lucky to have the following people and places in my life. Thank you, thank you to: Alan Boudreau, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Carla Drysdale, ETS, Suzanne Gardinier, Jennifer Giordano, Hogen Green, Peter Greer, Liz Hecht, Laurie Miller Hornik, Minter Krotzer, Joan Larkin, Patricia Lee Lewis, Valerie Linet, Thomas Lux, Emily Mieras, Linda Pastan, Naomi Shihab Nye, Doug Rogers, Pat Schneider, Elaine Sexton, Jill Silverstein, Hal Sirowitz, Andrea Szeto, Judy and Godfrey Tomanek, Jean Valentine, Coly Vulpiani, Anne Weiss, and Florence Wetzel, for everything they have taught me and showed me and helped me to be; Ryushin Sensei, Shugen Sensei, Hojin Osho, and the sangha at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, NY, for keeping the ground under my feet; Soapstone, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, for sanctuary; the staff at the University of Pittsburgh Press, especially Margie Bachman, David Baumann, Lowell Britson, Joel W. Coggins, Kelley Johovic, Maria Sticco, and Alex Wolfe, for their kind and patient care of this book, and of me; Mary Bisbee-Beek, for embodying generosity always; Sarah Masters, for invaluable artistic friendship—and for the beautiful cover art; Julie Greenwood, for help with technology and beyond; Tarn Wilson, for so many years of yeses; Grace Shin, for making everything possible; Ed Ochester, for his amazing faith in these poems; my mother and sister, for their boundless love; Dennis Reil, for putting the heart in me every single day; and Linda Elkin: first teacher, best reader, darling friend. ...