Persephone

Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments

3 Persephone 4 This page intentionally left blank. 5 Persephone poetry O Lyn Lifshin RED HEN PRESS | Los Angeles, California 6 Persephone Copyright © 2009 by Lyn Lifshin ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Book design by Mark E. Cull Arrangement by Benjamin Mesirow ISBN: 978-1-59709-124-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2008927938 Published by Red Hen Press The California Arts Council and The National Endowment for the Arts partially support Red Hen Press. First edition www.redhen.org 7 Some of the following poems have appeared in these journals: Ploughshares; The Sun; International Poetry Review; South Carolina Review; Dudley Review at Harvard; Crab Creek Review; Phantasmagoria; Rattle; Yemassee; Press; The Plainswoman; 13th Moon; Square Lake; Black Water Review; Florida Review; Yellow Canary; Hollins Critic; The Circle; Drexel; Thunder Sandwich; Sou’ester; Verse Libre; Centennial Review; Redstart; Lips; Paterson Literary Review; Yawp; Pacific Coast Journal; Rambunctious Review; Pearl; Blue Messa;Northwest Review; Minnesota Review; Madison Review; Caliban; NewYork Quarterly; Seneca Review; Dekalb Review; Hawaii Review; Mudfish; Sahara; Pulpsmith; Hanging Loose; Hollins Critic; Farmers Market; Pequod; Connecticut Poetry Review; Portland Review; Kansas Quarterly;Grain; Christian Science Monitor;Hampden Syndey Review;Many Mountains Moving ; Mankato Poetry Review; Puerto Del Sol; Heaven Bone; Contact II; Skyline; Berkeley Poetry Review; Crab Creek Review; Room of One’s Own; New Delta Review; Bridges; Panhandler; Powhatten; Into the Teeth of the Wind; Iodine; Vincent Brothers; Plastic Tower; Louisiana Review ; Jones Ave; Eclipse; Mississippi Valley Review; Quercus; North Stone; Greenfield Review; Soundings East; Chiron; Facets; River King; Confrontation; Spillway, Ibbetson Review. 8 This page intentionally left blank. ...