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Acknowledgments Some of the poets and poems collected in this anthology also appeared in New Orleans Review,The Other South: Experimental Writing in the South 21, no. 2 (Summer 1995), and New Orleans Review, An Other South: ExperimentalWriting in the South, Part II 25, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring 1999). Special thanks to New Orleans Review editor Ralph Adamo, and Loyola University for their early support of this project. Ralph Adamo: “Roches Moutonnees” appeared in The Quarterly, and “New Orleans” in Southern Review. Sandy Baldwin: The Little Magazine published “[basic system code]” and “Heralds of the Hurricane,” in versions different from those below. Jake Berry: The exerpt from Brambu Drezi, Book III appeared in Lost And Found Times. Joel Dailey: Some of the poems included here have appeared in Fell Swoop, Prosodia, Exquisite Corpse, Hangman, and Fuck! Skip Fox: “sic transit gloria mundi” and “Economics of Metonymy: sic transit” appeared in Exquisite Corpse 8. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “Big Mama Thornton,” “Eyes of Soon Children,” “Ellen Craft,” “i am your courtier,” “Ezekiel Saw de Wheel” from The Gospel of Barbecue (Wick Poetry Series/Kent State University Press, 2000). “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” “Five Note Range of Sorrow,” Massachusetts Review (Summer 2000).“Eatonton Tableaux,” Obsidian III (Summer 2000). Joy Lahey: "White Soil," "Cattails Along Red River," and "Cotton and Gladiolas" were published in Mesechabe and then in Abandoned Premises, a chapbook from Lavender Ink, 1999. "Habitat Photo," "Buckles," appeared in New Orleans Review. Bill Lavender: pentacl was published in chapbook form by Fell Swoop.“A Note to Skip” appeared in New Delta Review. Hank Lazer: “Days 28” appeared in Days (New Orleans: Lavender Ink, 2002). Dana Lisa Lustig: “plane song:” was published in 108:98. Camille Martin: “from no truck” appeared in perspektive,“solfége parasite” in poethia,“to abcs and from rimbaud” in baddog. Jerry McGuire: “The Cages” appeared in Prosodia 8 and “Gongula” in Swift Kick 2. Thomas Meyer: “Uranium Ore” appeared in Tight No One (December 2001),Whit Griffin and Andrew Hughes, eds., Bennington,VT. Mark Prejsnar: “Assuage Bane” appeared in Mirage #4/ Period(ical). Randy Prunty: “Trigger D’evolution” appeared in 108. David Thomas Roberts: The piece beginning “Zinc-jangled pencil of groves” first appeared in Experimental Press. A version of “Rodeo” in unillustrated verse form first appeared in The Experioddicist. James Sanders: “Poem with Referees” appeared in 108. LorenzoThomas: “Flash Point” and “Magnetic Charms” first appeared in Combo (Fall 1999);“Dangerous Doubts” appeared in Gulf Coast:A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (Summer 1994);“FoolishTreasures” and “Back in the Day” appeared in Kente Cloth:African AmericanVoices inTexas (1995);“An Even-Tempered Girl Holds Her Breath” was originally published in Lungfull! Magazine (1998); and “Blues Variations” originally appeared in New Orleans Review (Spring 1999) Stephanie Williams: “A Drunkard Promise” was previously published in Mungo vs. Ranger 1 (Spring 1999). Andy Young: “Vodou Headwashing Ceremony” appeared in Exquisite Corpse; “In Anguish, the Heart Finally Prays” in New Orleans Review; and “Foxfire” and “Ghost of Me” in Mine (Lavender Ink, 2000). SethYoung: Some of the poems from river we are caried by appeared in 108 and Facture. ...

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