Jagged with Love

Acknowledgments

ACKnOWLeDGemenTS Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following magazines in which some of the works in this book have appeared, sometimes in slightly different versions or under different titles: America: "Krash" Oune 9-16, ~oo3) And Know This Place: Indiana Poetry Anthology: "To Jill Behrman, March ~oo3" Apalachee Review: "Across the World a Man Is Lifting His Gun" Bellingham Review: "Supernova Love Shah" (~oo~, vol. ~5, no. ~, issue 51); "Like the Nudes of Lucian Freud" (~oo3, vol. ~7, nos. 1&~, issue 54) Black Creek Review: "Christmas, ~ooo" (Summer ~oo~) Blackbird: "In Indiana" (Spring ~oo5, vol. 4, no. 1) Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: "The Surgery" (FalllWinter ~oo4, no. ~3) Center: "First Child, in the Womb" (~oo3, vol.~) The Cimarron Review: "My Husband Giving Me a Bath" (Spring ~oo5) Crab Orchard Review: "Santo Domingo Full ofSong" (Summer/Autumn ~oo4, vol. 9, no.~) The Florida Review: "God Is the Dream" (Spring ~oo4, vol. ~9, no. 1) Fourteen Hills: "Lost in the Cant" (Winter/Spring~oo4, VOl.I0, no. 1) Fugue: "Prose, I Say, Plasma" (Winter~oo5) GulfCoast: "Nude Self-Portrait" (Fall ~oo5) Image: "Daughter in the Waiting Room" Indiana Review: "Prose, I Say, Plasma" (Winter ~oo5) The Missouri Review: "Jagged with Love," "!t's the First Thing," "Muchas Gracias, My Love" (~oo4' vol. ~7' no. 3) The MississiPPi Review: "Sprezzatura" (Spring ~oo4, vol. 3~, nos. 1& ~) Nimrod InternationalJournal: "Every Dance with Caroline" (FalllWinter ~oo3, vol. 48, no. 1) Notre Dame Review: "To Prayer," "JustWanted to ShowYou a Picture of Myself' Runes: "Negligee, Negligence, Negligent" (~oo3) "We Take the Sky" was part of a collaborative project with Laura Jennings, ~oo3 EasterArt Exhibit, Hope Chapel, Austin, Texas. ix x THe aUTHor WOULD UKe TO THamc. The University ofWisconsin Press and Billy Collins; the University of Texas at Austin for the Keene Award, Roy Crane Excellence in Creative Arts Award, and a Michener Thesis Fellowship; and the National Society ofArts and Letters for the 2003 PoetryAward, with special thanks to the SanAntonio chapter for their kind selection and support. Dearest and deepest thanks to my father, mother, sister and brother, who have loved me with such consistency and graciousness I learned what love is; to my mentor, Dr. Mary Brown, whose presence is the quiet touchstone for this manuscript; to David Taylor and the amazing artists at Hope Chapel; to the kind friends and colleagues who have given careful considerationto my work: Barbara Hamby, Sara Pennington, Jennifer Perrine, Jimmy Kimbrell, Nick Allin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Judith Kroll, Steve Gehrke, Jessica Garratt, Phil Pardi, Veronica House, and Carrie Fountain; and nnally, to Joshua Banner, God's very keenest gift to me, you are my love poems come true. ...