Fata Morgana: Poems

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I’d like to thank the editors of the following journals in which many of these poems originally appeared, sometimes in earlier versions: American Poetry Review (“Come This Far,” “Homeric Interim,” “Things Waiting to Be Dangerous ,” “You, Therefore”); Black Warrior Review (“Mappa Mundi” under the title “Attempt at Sodomy,” “Brightness Falls,” “Some Kind of Osiris,” “Waterfront”); Chicago Review (“My Desert”); Conjunctions (“Cloud Chamber ,” “Naturalism,” “The Navigators,” “Persephone’s Celestial Sphere,” “Suture”); Denver Quarterly (“Angles of Vision,” “Boy, Allegorically Deployed ,” “Itinerary,” “Thieves Like Us,” “Topograph,” “With the Wind Blowing Through It”); Gettysburg Review (“Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear”); Indiana Review (“Pear Tree, Bartlett, Quotations,” “Refrain,” “These Are the Things”); Iowa Review (“Eve’s Awakening,” “Five Feelings for Orpheus”); Kenyon Review (“Kinds of Camouflage”); Metre [Ireland] (“Boy, Allegorically Deployed,” “Brightness Falls,” “Come This Far,” “Homeric Interim,” “Itinerary,” “Kinds of Camouflage,” “Mappa Mundi,” “Narcissus to Echo,” “Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear ,” “Refrain,” “The Tendency of Dropped Objects to Fall,” “Topograph ,” “You, Therefore”); New England Review (“You Also, Nightingale”); Notre Dame Review (“Turandot”); Paris Review (“At Weep”); Pleiades (“Remainder ’s Edge”); Ploughshares (“Even This,” “How People Disappear,” “Orpheus Plays the Bronx,” “Somewhere Outside of Eden”); Poetry (“Respite”); Salmagundi (“A Handful of Sand,” “Light Years,” “While The Temptations Are Singing ‘I Wish It Would Rain’”); Salt [UK] (“At Weep”); Threepenny Review (“The Tendency of Dropped Objects to Fall”); TriQuarterly (“Dust,” “For My Mother in Lieu of Mourning,” “Narcissus to Echo,” “Snowdrops and Summer Snowflakes, Drooping”); Verse (“Probably Eros”); and Washington Square (“Hesitation Theory,” “One of the Lesser Epics”). “You Also, Nightingale” appeared in The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by Robert Creeley. “Snowdrops and Summer Snowflakes, Drooping” appeared in In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, edited by David Starkey and Paul J. Willis. 103 Shepherd BM:Layout 1 12/20/06 5:31 PM Page 103 “Boy, Allegorically Deployed,” “Homeric Interim,” “Itinerary,” “Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear,” “Refrain,” and “Self-Portrait in the New World Order” appeared in Rainbow Darkness: Poems and Essays from the Diversity in African American Poetry Conference, edited by Keith Tuma. “Dust” appeared in Poetry Calendar 2006: 365 Classic and Contemporary Poems, selected by Shafiq Naz. “One of the Lesser Epics” appeared in Poetry Calendar 2007: 365 Classic and Contemporary Poems, selected by Shafiq Naz. “How People Disappear” appeared in Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1977, edited by William Walsh. I want to thank my editor, Ed Ochester, for his consistent support of my work in its various metamorphoses over the years. I’d like to thank my friends Jocelyn Emerson, Catherine Imbriglio, and Lawrence L. White for their friendship, careful reading, and support during the writing of these poems. Thanks to Robert Philen for all that and more: permit me voyage, love, into your hands. 104 Shepherd BM:Layout 1 12/20/06 5:31 PM Page 104 ...