Olives: Poems

Acknowledgments

69 Acknowledgments My thanks to the editors of the following periodicals, in which these poems first appeared, sometimes in slightly different versions: Able Muse: “Lines for Turner Cassity” American Arts Quarterly: “Umbrage” The Atlantic Monthly: “Olives” (the anagrammatic poem) Beloit Poetry Journal: “Another Bedtime Story” The Cortland Review: “The Argument,” “Four Fibs” (A fib is a form invented by Gregory K. Pincus that uses the Fibonacci sequence to govern the number of syllables per line.) The Formalist: “Country Song,” originally titled “Long Gone Lonesome Blues” (Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award) The Hudson Review: “Handbook of the Foley Artist,” “Hide and Seek” Linebreak: “Alice in the Looking Glass” The National Poetry Review: “The Compost Heap” The New Criterion: “Accident Waiting to Happen,” “Deus Ex Machina,” “Olives,” “Pop Music” New York Sun: “Baby Talk,” “Telephonophobia” Poetry: “Blackbird Étude,” “The Catch,” “Containment,” “Extinction of Silence,” “Fairy-Tale Logic,” “The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons,” “On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia,” “Recitative,” “Sublunary,” “Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Ascribed to Martin Luther,” “Tulips,” “Two Violins” Poetry.org: “Sea Girls” 70 Smartish Pace: “The Ghost Ship” The Southern Review: “The Cenotaph” Subtropics: “The Dress of One Occasion,” “Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason, Aged Three” Think Journal: “Funereal Stelae: Kerameikos, Athens” 32 Poems: “Burned,” “Dinosaur Fever” Unsplendid: “Sabbatical” Valparaiso Poetry Review: “Three Poems for Psyche” Thanks to Poetry Daily (www.poems.com) and Verse Daily (www.versedaily .com) for featuring several of these poems. Thanks to the House of Literature at Lefkes, Paros, for a two-week residency during which some of these poems were initiated. Also thanks to Dick Davis, Rachel Hadas, Mike Levine, Catherine Tufariello, and David Yezzi for their patience in looking over this manuscript. And as always chilia eucharisto to John Psaropoulos, my captive audience. ...