Soul Over Lightning: Poems

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I would like to thank the editors for previously publishing some of the poems in the following journals: American Poetry Review: “The Owl” Anti: “Dark Star” Best American Poetry 2003: “Max Jacob’s Shoes” Bitter Oleander: “Beautiful,”“Defend the Day,” and “Memory House” Caliban: “Balata,”“Eyes of a Saint,” and “Rufino Tamayo” Conduit: “I Stepped on the Head of Man Ray” Malpais Review: “West of West” MiPOesias: “The Miracle” New American Writing: “He Calls His Dog Rimbaud” Puerto del Sol: “The White Hair” The Writing Disorder: “A Made Place That Is Mine” I would like to thank the University of Minnesota’s Faculty Imagine Fund and its Scholar of the College Fellowship Program, along with the Vermont Studio Center, for support and space to complete many of these poems. I wrote many of them in the memory of my late friend, Morton Marcus, and of my late teacher and mentor, Robert Burlingame.This book is dedicated to them. With friendship and respect for their poetry, I thank George Kalamaras, John Bradley, Phil Woods, and Juan Felipe Herrera. Soul Over Lightning ...