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ix Acknowledgments abz: “de Kooning” The American Poetry Review: “Queue,” “The Wedding at Ram Island,” “Frame,” “Signs & Portents,” “All Things Move toward Disorder Except the Newly Created,” “Theodicy,” “Exit Row,” “Stutter,” “Give Me Poland,” “Prayer for My Daughters” Columbia Magazine: “Icon,” “The Deal” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact: “Kafka, Women” Diagram: “Glaciology” Fence: “Shattered Bio” The Kenyon Review: “Ode to a Photographer” The New Yorker: “Reunion” Ploughshares: “The Fly” Plume: “Throw It All Away” Poetry: “Votive” Quick Fiction: “The Mission” Sentence: “The Children’s Table” Slate: “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” “Self-Made” Sycamore Review: “Jonquillity” Valparaiso Poetry Review: “Event Horizon” Whiskey Island: “You Need a Subject for the Sun to Rise” Some of these poems also appeared in Swerve, a chapbook from Pudding House Press, and The Execution of Little Maude, an e-chapbook from Scantily Clad Press. I thank the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the University of Louisville, the Kentucky Arts Council, and Tirbracken Farm for support that made the writing of many of these poems possible. Thanks also to Dick Allen, Mark Jarman, Leslie McGrath, Robert Pinsky, and, as ever, Sarah, for help with this book. ...

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