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acknowledgments thanks to the editors of the following publications in which these poems appeared , sometimes in slightly different form: American Poetry Review: “Decalogue: Mothers and Sons” and “Decalogue: Mothers and daughters” Five Points: “gratification,” “the Soul bone,” “a Short history of Women in the nineteenth Century,” and “the old testament” Georgia Review: “My Mother Comes back to Me,” “Decalogue: thin ice,” “Decalogue: What if,” and “Decalogue: ethics” Greensboro Review: “if grief Were a bird” Gulf Coast: “Decalogue: Chance” and “Decalogue: fathers and daughters” Kenyon Review: “Decalogue: husbands and Wives” and “Soledad” (as part of a longer poem, “Leafing”) Meridian: “Decalogue: rooms” New England Review: “the Lord god returns” Northwest Review: “My father Looks down on Me,” “the Magic hour,” “Palace theater,” and “dotage” Smartish Pace: “Custody,” “Without number,” “Decalogue: Siblings,” “elegy for My Pug Cosmo” TriQuarterly: “horoscope” and “i got a Mind to ramble” Virginia Quarterly Review: “in america” “after his retirement, LbJ visits greenville” and “the Strange Case of the virgin Lidwina,” first appeared in Callaloo : (Winter ): –. Copyright , Charles h. rowell. reprinted with permission by the Johns hopkins university Press. “gratification” was reprinted in Best American Poetry —thanks to billy Collins. “the Lord god returns” also appeared on Poetry Daily and was nominated by the New England Review for a Pushcart Prize, receiving an honorable mention. thanks to C. dale young. “horoscope” was reprinted in Seriously Funny, edited by barbara hamby and david Kirby (university of georgia Press, ). thanks to barbara and david. “a Short history of Women in the nineteenth Century” and “the old testament ” received the James dickey Prize in Poetry from Five Points: A Journal of Literature and the Arts. thanks to Megan Sexton and david bottoms. My gratitude to the friends who read some of these poems in manuscript form and offered sage advice: Jericho brown, Steve gehrke, tony hoagland, Steve orlen, Stanley Plumley, Marsha recknagel, Suzanne rindell, Sasha West, and, especially, barbara hamby. thanks again to Letha Cole for her tough-minded encouragement and wisdom over many years. thanks to Susan Shreve and timothy Seldes for their long friendship and for loaning me their house on Martha’s vineyard , and thanks to rice university and former dean of humanities gary Wihl for allowing me generous leave to work on this book. and thanks to Caleb, Caitlin, Martha and orly, who mean everything to me. i’d like to express my thanks to my editor at the university of Pittsburgh Press, ed ochester, and to others there who made this book better than it would have been without them, particularly Kelley hope Johovic, Maria Sticco, ann Walston, alex Wolfe, and Chiquita babb. ...