Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds

Acknowledgments

71 acknowledgments A number of these poems previously appeared (sometimes in a different form) in the following journals, anthologies, and one textbook, whose editors I thank: ABZ: “My Boyfriend: A Confession” (as “Confession”), “Phoning Frank O’Hara”; Antioch Review: “Our Tigers,” “The Dress with Books on It Is Too Small”; Can we have our ball back?: “My Background”; Chelsea: “Bob’s Our Uncle,” “How Things Work” (as “My Habits”); Cincinnati Review: “My Mettle,” “New Country”; Colorado Review: “My Conference with Guillaume Apollinaire,” “Journal for Baudelaire” (as “My Intimate Journals”); Connecticut Review: “Our Pup”; Denver Quarterly: “Difficult Daughters,” “Why I Should Be a Concierge”; DMQ Review: “Provisions,” “For Larry Rivers,” “The Band”; Eclipse: “Annulment” (as “My Search for Cohorts”), “A Less-than-Stylish Ennui,” “Planet of Distraction,” “Temp”; Field: “Rimbaud’s Ears” (As “Ears”), “Someone Is Messing Up the Roses,” “Bone,” “Boathouse,” “Singles,” “Power” (as “Our Big River”); 5 AM: “My Audition,” “Nurse Kiki on WCW”; Great River Review: “That Was Me” (as “I Lose Myself”); Hollins Critic: “Good Night, Mr. Know-It-All”; Jubilat: “Big Colt”; Laurel Review: “Society for the Dissolution of Learning”; Nebraska Review: “Jazz”; New American Writing: “Spring” (as “My Feelings”); The New Republic: “Piecework”; Noon: “True Story” (as “Luck”); Pool: “Balm”; Prairie Schooner: “Two Things That Didn’t Happen to Me” (as “Sooey”); Southeast Review: “To Percy Bysshe Shelley,” “High-Rise,” “Color Film” (as “My Day of Reversals”), “Someday I’ll Take Again My Lightning Drive through Love” (as “Slow Drive to Bogalusa”); Sundog: “What to Wear for Divorce” (as “What to Wear”); Verse Daily: “Provisions,” “For Larry Rivers,” “The Band.” 72 “Jazz” appeared in Best American Poetry 2001 (Scribner) and also in Jazz Poems (Knopf, 2006); “Less-than-Stylish Ennui” appeared in Lasting: Poems on Aging (Pima Press, 2005); “Annulment” (as “Once”), “Inadequacy,” “Closet of Desserts,” and “Disabled Power Steering” appeared in Shade (Four Way Books, 2006); “Difficult Daughters” appeared in Writing Poems, 6th Edition (Longman, 2003). Thanks also to Terrance Hayes, James Kimbrell, David Lehman, Lynn Watson, and the students in the Center for Writers. ...