Sand Theory: Poems

Acknowledgments

vii aCknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is given to the editors of the following periodicals, where some of these poems appeared, sometimes in different versions: Blackbird: “Light or Dark Speech” Court Green: “Essay on Craft” “Waking Slow” Crab Orchard Review: “Human Ashes” Dunes Review: “The Art of Goodness” “The Days After the Day of the Dead” “Last White-Throated Sparrow of May” “Long Distance Friends” Epiphany: “Voice Road” Gettysburg Review: “Lake Leelanau Goes Still One Day in Fall” The Little Review: “Good Night” (published as “The Waves”) New Ohio Review: “Cabbages Across from the Manitou Islands” Parthenon West Review: “Dropping Off to Sleep” Poetry Northwest: “You” viii Quarterly West: “Black Rot” “Dune Grass” Saranac Review: “Harvest Midnight” Shenandoah: “First Bible” “Leaf Watching, for Landor” Tiferet: “Theology of a Mosquito” TriQuarterly: “Sand Theory” “This Heaven” “Those Yachts” West Branch: “The Nonsighting” “Under Foot” “Grocery Night” was published in the anthology Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). “The Last White-Throated Sparrow of May” and “The Days After the Day of the Dead” were reprinted in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry. “The Last White-Throated Sparrow of May” was also published as a broadside by Michigan Book Arts Center. “Light or Dark Speech” was reprinted in Pushcart Prize XXXV. Thanks also to the Guggenheim Foundation and Western Michigan University for support that provided the time to write many of these poems. SCND THEORY No fact is isolate. —lorine niedeCker ...