The Lame God

Acknowledgments

A C K n OW L e D G M e n t S heartfelt gratitude is due to the editors of the journals in which these poems appeared, sometimes in slightly different form: The Adirondack Review for “Bingo night for Missing and exploited Children,” winner of the 2013 46er Prize American Poetry Journal for “Leaving the Mainland” and for “1-800-the-LOSt,” winner of the American Poet Prize The Anthology of New England Writers for “A Glass of Absinthe” Beauty/Truth: A Journal of Ekphrastic Poetry for “Girl at Piano” and “the Arrangement” Cider Press Review for “Snow Globe” The Comstock Review for “Museum,” “the rescue,” and “the retrieval” The DMQ Review for “Aubade” Georgetown Review for “Oaths, Curses, Blessings” The National Poetry Review for “Against elegies” and “On recognizing Saints,” winner of the Annie Finch Prize new south: Georgia State University’s Journal of Art and Literature for “Amber Alert,” winner of the new south Poetry Award River Styx for “At the Grieving Parents Meeting” Smartish Pace for “Catharsis” The Southern Poetry Review for “teaching the tragedies” The Spoon River Poetry Review for “Melville’s reader,” “the Lame God,” and “the rape of Chrysippus,” winner of the editor’s Prize Willow Springs for “Sanriku,” winner of the Vachel Lindsay Award For their roles in developing this book’s cover art, gratitude is extended to Scott eaton (www.scott-eaton.com) for permission to use his digital sculpture “hephaestus ii” and to Ben Johnson (www.benjohnsonart.com) for his vision and contribution to the cover design. ...