Cardinal Points

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Cardinal Points hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Poems by Michael Pettit University of Iowa Press Iowa City University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright © 1988 by Michael Pellit All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1988 Design by Richard Hendel Typeselling by G&S Typesellers, Austin, Texas @ Printing and binding by Versa Press, East Peoria, Illinois No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. The author would like to thank the National Endowment for the Arts for a fellowship which made the completion of this book possible. Grateful acknowledgment is also made to the following publications in which some of these poems first appeared: Agm Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Ironwood, Kenyon Review, MfJS$achwetts Review, Missouri Review, Morrow Anthology ofYOlJII8er American Poets, New Virginia Review, Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest. Southern Humanities Review. Southern Review, Three Rivers Poetry Journal. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ~ Pellit, Michael. Cardinal points: poems I Michael Pellit.-lst ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-87745-205-9. ISBN 0-87745-206-7 (pbk.) I. Title. PS3566.E89C37 1988 811'.54-dcl9 88-14797 CIP for Dara Who but the loved know love's a faring-forth? -Roethke ...