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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to the journals and reviews in which some of these poems first appeared: Shenandoah:“The Photograph,”“The Bucket” Blackbird: An Online Journal:“The Wine,”“The Gentleman,” “The Cavalry,”“The Parade” Poetry International:“The Cradle,” “The Chickadee,” “The Ship” The Hopkins Review:“The Scythe” Thank you to the National Portrait Gallery for their commission of “The Cemetery” (under the title“Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with Clouds for a Ceiling”) for their collection, Lines in Long Array: A Commemoration of the Civil War. Great thanks to Dave Smith, Ross Gay, Ilya Kaminsky, Chris Mazza,and R.T.Smith for their insight and encouragement of this book. A special thanks to the poet Leslie Shiel whose generous patient reading over several years made this book a reality. Thanks also to Enid Shomer for her great kindness and her advice. Thanks toTodd Hardy,Brian King,and Charles Lloyd without whom this book would not have been written. vii ...

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