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acknowledgments

63 acknowledgments I wish to thank the editors of the journals where these poems first appeared: AGNI Online (“Mystery Ending with a Girl in a Field,” “Mystery of the Noise the Air Makes When Milled”); American Poetry Review (“Defense Language,” “Elegy,” “Erato,” “First Mystery of My Father,” “Heaven,” “Paternoster,” “Second Mystery of My Father”); Antioch Review (“Hunger”); Blackbird (“Colorization”); Black Warrior Review (“After the Telling,” “Answering Machine,” “Answer to the Mystery of My Blank Stare,” “Betrayal,” “Cold Logic,” “Counting,” “Deception,” “Evasion,” “Finishing Moves,” “Glorious Mystery,” “Hell,” “Mimicry,” “Mystery Beneath a Handprint of Light,” “Nesting,” “Panic,” “Rapt,” “Setting,” “Sorrowful Mystery,” “Weather”); Gulf Coast (“Joyous Mystery,” “Luminous Mystery”); Kenyon Review (“Gene Mapping”); LUNA (“Concealment,” “Radio,” “Sirens,” “Suppleness,” “Tracking”); Ploughshares (“Temper”); Prairie Schooner (“A New Way of Thinking About Space,” “First Mystery of My Sister,” “Last Call,” “Quotes from the Papers”); Southern Review (“Spit,” “Talk Show,” “Woodpile”); Tin House (“Second Mystery of My Sister”). “Colorization” was reprinted in Heather Sellers’s The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007). “Nesting” also appeared in Best New Poets 2007, edited by Natasha Trethewey (University of Virginia Press, 2007). “Colorization” (2005) and “Setting” (2007) were reprinted by Verse Daily (www.versedaily.com). 64 65 , Many, many thanks to Karen Fish, Andrew Hudgins, John Irwin, Greg Williamson, Stephanie Bolster, Alan Shapiro, Mark Strand, Michael Collier, Catherine Barnett, Bret Lott, Mark Doty, Mark Jarman, Lorraine López, Kate Daniels, Rick Hilles, Nancy Reisman, Paul Young, Liz Hazen, Alex Long, James Hoch, and Alex Lemon. Warm thanks also go to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and to the Tennessee Arts Commission for scholarships and grants that allowed me to complete the book, and to everyone at AWP and Pitt. I am forever grateful to Lynn Emanuel for selecting the book. And to Brian, for picking me up. ...