The Endarkenment

Acknowledgments

73 Acknowledgments Earlier versions of these poems appeared in the following journals: Alaska Quarterly Review (“Just for the Record,” “Zugzwang”); Askew (“Wildlife on the 4”); Backwards City Review (“Blessings from the Shrine Pit”); Canary River (“Guidebook to Nowhere,” “Impersonal Ad #47”); Columbia Review (“Odysseus on the G,” “Whitman on the F”); Crab Orchard Review (“The Heavy Breather Zoo,” “Oblivion Chiclets”); Fourteen Hills Review (“i send you this leaf”); Los Angeles Review (“The Quicksand Hourglass”); Lumina (“Meditations on the Death Penalty”); Mid-American Review (“from The Emotional Warrior Handbook,” “Matisse/Picasso Painting Exchange); Pebble Lake Review (“from The Diaries of Cinnamon Holloway,” “Summer of Stationary Road Trips”); Pindeldyboz (“The Endarkenment,” “The USS Goodbye”); Pool (“Little Sadness”); Quercus Review (“Arrivederci Lipstick”); Spork (“Air Empathy,” “Boner Etiquette,” “Good”); Tuesday: An Art Project (“Confessions of a Flawed Deity”). “The Quicksand Hourglass” appeared in the anthology Spoken Word Revolution Redux (edited by Mark Eleveld). “The Endarkenment,” “Good,” “Heavy Breather Zoo,” and “Zugzwang” appeared in Schwerkraft (edited by Ron Winkler), an anthology of younger American poets published in Austria. The author would like to thank Joel Brouwer, Stacy Gnall, Kate Knapp Johnson, Thomas Lux, David Morrison, and Ed Ochester for their close reading of this book when it was still in manuscript form. The author would also like to thank Joan As Policewoman, Versus, Cat Power, Blonde Redhead, and Astor Piazzolla for their music, which was instrumental in the creation of this work. ...