Names Above Houses

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments Thanks to the following publications where many of the poems in this book first appeared: The Asian Pacific American Journal—“Fidelito Suddenly Becomes Afraid of Heights” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review—“What Fidelito Knows of His Father” The Clackamas Literary Review—“In the Year of the Rat,”“Grounding,” “Fidelito Takes Flight up a Ladder,”“With the Grace of Basket Weavers” Crab Orchard Review—“Domingo’s Advice for Fidelito,”“At Sea Domingo Learned to Steady His Hand” The Cream City Review—“The Death of Domingo Recto,” “Domingo’s Blood Clot” Hanging Loose—“The Fourth Madonna” The Literary Review—“After the Boy Goes to Bed”under the title“After Fidelito Goes to Bed,”“Domingo, Too Old for Fishing,”“An Anatomy of Birds,”“In the Dream with Blue Snow” The Marlboro Review—“The Puzzle of Kites,”“For Hours,Fidelito Hangs from the Topmost Branch Before Letting Go”under the title“For FortyFive Hours,Fidelito Hangs from the Topmost Branch Before Letting Go” Mockingbird—“From the Ocean, Fidelito Pulls,”“Manong Jose Remembers Fidelito’s First Fall” Passages North—“The Romance of Bait” Perihelion—“The Fisherman’s Chronicle,”“A Cupboard Full of Halos,” “What the Laundry Told Maria Elena,”“Maria Elena Puts His Good Shoes Away” Quarterly West—“Nine Secrets the Recto Family Can’t Tell the Boy,” “Insects in Maria Elena’s Kitchen” Third Coast—“School Years,”“Origami Dove,”“Earth and Sky” “Three Madonnas,”under the title“The Family with Three Madonnas,” appears in Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Literature, edited by Shirley Goek-lin Lim and Cheng-Lok Chua. xiv Nick Carbó, Jeanne E. Clark , Norman Dubie, Denise Duhamel, M. Evelina Galang, Beckian Fritz-Goldberg, Rigoberto González, Susan McCabe, Bino Realuyo, Alberto Ríos, and Eileen Tabios: thank you for your advice, your support, and your friendship. ...