Must a Violence

Acknowledgments

121 acknowledgments Sincere thanks to the editors of the following journals, in which poems from this book first appeared (with special thanks to Katie Ford at New Orleans Review and Nate Pritts at H_NGM_N for publishing features of my work): Augury Books (“The Occupation”); Boston Review (“When All the Leaves”); Catch Up (“Attention Span”); Clade Song (“Little Pig”); Columbia Poetry Review (“Selection” and “The Wild Rabbit”); Conduit (“Five Tiny Doves” and “This World”); Fence (“Has His Smell and Taste” and “If You Love an Animal”); H_NGM_N Poetry Journal (“I Was a Whale,” “Mechanics,” “17-Year Diagnosis,” “Sometimes a Body,” and “Everybody”); The Laurel Review (“The Sun Turns Like a Pinwheel”); Nevermore (“Two-Starred Constellation”); New Orleans Review (“No Blue Morpho,” “The Worms,” “See,” “Then From Our Green Branch,” and “Must a Violence”). Enormous gratitude to Mark Levine for his fantastic, scrupulous editing work and revision suggestions. And deepest thanks and love to Jon Woodward, without whom this book could not have been written. ...