Vulgar Remedies: Poems

Acknowledgments

77 Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which these poems first appeared: The Best American Poetry 2013: “Wedding Night: We Share an Heirloom Tomato on Our Hotel Balcony Overlooking the Ocean in Which Natalie Wood Drowned” (reprint); Connotation Press: “Fable with Prison Nurse and an Early Morning Embrace”; Copper Nickel: “Alarm (2)” and “Saint Bruise”; diode: “Alarm”; FIELD: “Confessions of a Firestarter” and “When I Reached into the Stomach of a Fistulated Dairy Cow: Sixth Grade Field Trip to Sonny’s Dairy Barn”; Hayden’s Ferry Review: “As I Rewind”; Indiana Review: “Dermatographia” and “Sonnets to the Egyptian Chamomile Farmers”; Jabberwock Review: “Base Notes in Perfume Are Almost Always of Animal Origin” and “Why Bioluminescent Shrimp Remind Me of Laura”; The Kenyon Review: “Sonnets to Ambien” and “Warning”; The Kenyon Review Online: “Elegy Where I Initially Refuse to Eat Sand,” “Mercy,” “Moose Head Mounted on the Wall of Big Pappa’s Barbecue Joint,” and “The Spirit of the Hour Visits Big Pappa’s Barbeque Joint”; The Missouri Review Online: “The Devil’s Apron”; The Rumpus: “Danse Macabre, Mississippi: My Great-Grandmother Fires a BB Gun”; The Rumpus Original Poetry Anthology: “Danse Macabre, Mississippi: My GreatGrandmother Fires a BB Gun” (reprint); Salt Hill: “And Behold the Locks of the Three Dimensions Are Sprung”; Shenandoah: “Honey Dusk Do Sprawl” and “Leaving Texas”; Southern Indiana Review: “Nightmare before the Foreclosure”; The Southern Review: “Wedding Night: We Share an Heirloom Tomato on Our Hotel Balcony Overlooking the Ocean in Which Natalie Wood Drowned,” “Black Porcelain French Telephone,” “Vulgar Remedies: Tooth and Salt,” and “Vulgar Remedies (2): If You Hold a Dying Creature during Childhood”; Spillway: “Diagnosis: Birds in the Blood,” “One Week before the Vasectomy, We Stay in the Panama Hotel Bed & Breakfast in a Room Called Cole’s Dollhouse,” and “Wool Blanket Covered in Nipples”; Stone Canoe: “Tooth Fairy Pillow”; Tar River Poetry: “Article 78 for the End Times: Gas-Mask Bra” and “The History in Coffee”; Vinyl Poetry: “There’s Another Forest Growing in the Water”; Verse Daily: “Alarm (2)” (reprint) and “Diagnosis: Birds in the Blood” (reprint). With profound gratitude to MaryKatherine Callaway, John Easterly, Jessica Faust, Neal Novak, and all the folks at Louisiana State University Press. Special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation of Yaddo. ...