Half/Mask

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I would like to thank the editors of the following journals where some of these poems or versions of them were originally published: Amicus Journal (now OnEarth): “The Sandhill Cranes Come Back”; Denver Quarterly: “In the Art Museum Coffee Shop”; 5AM: “Mask on Mask” and “The Other Side of the Air”; The Flying Island: “This Act”; Green Mountains Review: “White Winged Swarming”; Hamilton Stone Review: “Dream Seed,” “Museum,” “Utitsialangavik,” and “Half Mask”; New American Writing: “Thule”; The Ohio Review: “First Mask” and “Mask of the Few Things”; Organization and Environment: “Driving North Through the Middle of the Continent in Late Fall Looking for Snow,” “Above Bow Lake,” “Dream Seed,” and “Crocus, Beginning”; Rattle: “Beset”; River Styx: “Last Summer of the Century”; Spoon River Poetry Review: “Lichen”; Tar River Poetry: “The Story Attaches Itself to Us”; West Branch: “The Stones at Callinish, Isle of Lewis,” “The Deaths of William Braine,” and “Grise.” “Whew” was first published in The Talking of Hands: Unpublished Writings by New Rivers Press Authors, ed. Robert Alexander et al. (1998). “Mask of the Few Things” was republished in The Ohio Review, Thirtieth Anniversary, 1971–2001: New & Selected, Vol. II (2001). “Thule” was republished in The World’s Best Poetry/ Poem Finder, Roth Publishing, Inc. [electronic]. “Last Summer of the Century” won the 2001 River Styx International Poetry Contest. Thanks to The Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary for putting the institute’s research facilities at my disposal for two weeks during the summer of 1995, to Indiana University for providing me a Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, to the Indiana Arts Commission for a fellowship to assist my travel to the High Arctic, to the National Endowment for the Arts, to the New York Foundation for the Arts, to Yaddo for a 83 residency, and as so often, to The Ragdale Foundation for several residencies, where many of these poems were drafted and/or polished . Special thanks, too, to the following who have helped this project along with some extremely useful critical enthusiasm: Christopher Cokinos, Elizabeth Dodd, Tam Lin Neville, Jim Scrimgeour, Bert Stern, David Wojahn, and Dean Young. Elton Glaser of The University of Akron Press engineered the best rethinking of a manuscript I’ve ever been through. Many thanks to him. To Dorian, of course, whose encouragement and editorial skills have left their mark on every page. 84 ...