In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011

Acknowledgements

222 acknowledgments: My gratitude to the individuals who were responsible for editing the following publications in which my poems appeared: Periplum (Penngrove: Avec Books, 1992); Hours of the Book (Tenerife: Zasterle , 1994); Ledger Domain (Timolian: Providence, 1995); New Picnic Time (Buffalo: Meow Editions, 1995); Artificial Heart (Providence: Burning Deck, 1998); Add This to the House (Cambridge: Equipage, 1999); Château If (Paris: Slacik Editions, 2000); Revival (New Haven: Phylum, 2002); Fin Amor (Oakland: Tougher Disguises, 2002); Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Middletown: Wesleyan, 2003); Periplum and other poems (Cambridge: Salt Publishers, 2004); A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling, 2006); The Outernationale (Middletown: Wesleyan, 2007); In Song & Story (Amsterdam: Tungsten, 2010); Pinocchio’s Gnosis (Northampton: The Song Cave, 2010); History Is Made at Night (Cincinnati: Students of Decay, 2011); and Threshold Songs (Middletown: Wesleyan, 2011). My sincerest thanks go to the many good people who offered their useful comments and suggestions and support. My deepest thanks go to my editor and dear friend, Suzanna Tamminen. note: Because of my habit of adding newly written poems to my books, as they’re being typeset even, I have taken the liberty of making a few silent edits to a handful of poems; also, I extracted a few poems from series to stand on their own for this occasion: poems from the series “Periplum” and “A History of the Lyric.” ...