Fire Baton: Poems

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Acknowledgments

Fire Baton HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page i HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page ii Fire Baton Poems by Elizabeth Hadaway The University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville 2006 HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page iii Copyright © 2006 by Elizabeth Hadaway All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 00 09 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 Text design by Ellen Beeler The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hadaway, Elizabeth, 1968– Fire baton : poems / by Elizabeth Hadaway. p. cm. ISBN 1-55728-824-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Title. PS3608.A257F57 2006 811'.6—dc22 2006017523 HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page iv to the memory of Walter Wesley Palmer HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page v HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page vi Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgments to the following publications, in which these poems have appeared, some under the name Leigh Palmer: “Idol Meat” (as “Miss Osbourne to the Telemarketer”), “Beating My Head on a Curb in California” (as “Police Radio Remembered”), Ambo; “Amazed at Gray Light,” Anglican Theological Review; “Drinking Bottled Water,” Appalachian Heritage; “Ghosts for Dinner,” The Bellingham Review; “Magic City Mortgage Co., 1951” (as “Lee Highway, 1950”), The Blue Penny Quarterly; “All Short-a Appalachia,” “Living with the Bureau of Public Debt,” DIAGRAM; “Silicon Valley, 1998,” Emrys Journal; “Faculty Parking Apocalypse” (as “Pavementscape”), The Enterprise; “Disney Ride Song of the South,” Five Fingers Review; “Crop Cults” (as “She Tries to Narrow Down His Doubts”), Greensboro Review; “A Scratch,” New England Review; “Was You Born Here?” “Living with Ballads: Sidna Allen,” “The Black Dog of the Blue Ridge,” Poetry; “The Black Dog of the Blue Ridge” (on January 28, 2005, by permission of Poetry), Poetry Daily; “Richmond Breastworks” (as “Ode to the Dodger Dead”), Shenandoah; and “The Banks of Hell” (as “Hook, Line”), Yale Anglers’ Journal. “The Shower Curtain Swans” rotated as a Public Service Poem on WTJU Radio (Charlottesville, Virginia). Thanks also to my mother, my husband, all my teachers, Enid Shomer for her editing, Carolyn Brady, Poppy Z. Brite, Jennifer Buxton, Margo Figgins, Maria Hagan, Matthew Kirsch, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Tara Moyle, Browning Porter, Wendy Shang, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Stanford University, Virginia Theological Seminary, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the University of Virginia’s Young Writers’ Workshop. vii HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page vii HadawayRevisedPages 8/15/06 3:09 PM Page viii ...