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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am grateful to the editors of the following magazines, where many of the poems in this book first appeared: Agni:“Gossip” Barn Owl Review:“Love Letter” Black Warrior Review:“Hadrian’s Wall” (as “To Draw a Line”) Copper Nickel:“Canary,”“The Ladder Tree” Fourteen Hills:“All the Animals Are Birds” (as “X All the Animals”) Gulf Coast:“Letter after Dismemberment” The Hat:“Scissors, Hammer, Hoof Pick,Awl” Hayden’s Ferry Review: “Rabbit of the World” The Huffington Post: “Phlox” (as “Odd Wild”) The Kenyon Review:“Stepmother,”“Wife” Linebreak:“Bug” No Tell Motel:“Tennessee” Passages North: “The Red Thread,” “The Thief” Phoebe:“Impetus,”“White Asparagus” PN Review:“The Land” Poetry:“After the Party” Post Road:“Salt” Prairie Schooner:“The Flood” River City:“Nothing Happened” Shenandoah:“Velata” Valparaiso Poetry Review:“Child Bride,” “Your Marriage” (as “Marriage”) “Clean” and “The Ripper’s Bride” first appeared in the chapbook Lot of My Sister (The Kent State -ix- University Press, 2001). Reprinted with permission of The Kent State University Press. Thank you to Cornelius Eady, Ron Wallace, everyone at the University of Wisconsin Press, Ohio University, and the Denison University Reynolds Young Writers’ Workshop. Special thanks to Dan Sweatt for the good luck, and to my friends, students, and family, especially my husband, Jordan Davis. -x- WAIT ...