Beasts and Violins

Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments

Beasts & Violins This page intentionally left blank. Beasts & Violins poems by Caleb Barber Red Hen Press | Pasadena, CA Beats and Violins Copyright © 2010 by Caleb Barber All rights reserved No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Book design by Mark E. Cull Book layout by Sydney Nichols Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barber, Caleb, 1983Beasts & violins : poems / by Caleb Barber.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-59709-469-6 I. Title. II. Title: Beasts and violins. PS3602.A7594B43 2010 811’.6—dc22 2009045119 The Annenberg Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, and the National Endowment for the Arts partially support Red Hen Press. First Edition Published by Red Hen Press Pasadena, CA www.redhen.org Acknowledgments The following poems appeared previously in these fine journals: Alien Sloth Sex: “Dear Old Dads;” Best American Poetry 2009: “Beasts and Violins;” Cascade: “To the Man Driving I-5 with a Rabbit on His Shoulder;” Forge: “Pace;” Fulcrum: “Bellingham’s Favorite Son,” “Camping with Mad, Far from Montana,” and “False Eulogy for the Stillagaumish River;” High Desert Journal: “An Upstream Tow as an Early Date;” Jeopardy: “Report” and “Tavern Woman;” Los Angeles Review: “The Blue Collar Artist;” Makeout Creek: “Heart Lake: or, Poem for the Mistaken Boy;” New Orleans Review: “Twilight Town” and “What All Foxes Know (Two Ways Out of Their Burrows);” Plain Spoke: “Teaching the Beasts;” Poet Lore: “Beasts and Violins,” “Black Omen,” “The Buck,” “Into Days Between Snow,” “The False Twin,” “The Fair Kaleetan, Between Friday Harbor and Anacortes,” “Old Savage,” and “Over Breakfast;” Raven Chronicles : “Captain Fidalgo;” Portland Review: “This Southwestern State;” Rattle: “I Went in with My Hands Up;” Stringtown: “Machined Parts to Monroe;” and Soundings: “Blue Stilly.” Also, I’d like to thank the following people: Stephanie and Harley Barber, Rijl Barber, Isaac Boyle, Rachel Mehl, everyone at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts and Red Hen Press, Carolyne Wright, David Wagoner, and Tess Gallagher. This page intentionally left blank. ...