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Acknowledgments The author is grateful for a generous grant from the Lannan Foundation that helped make this book possible. Some of these poems and prose pieces were originally published in the following places: Atlantic Monthly (“The Creep,” “Summer’s Children”); Cimarron Review (“At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners,” “Interview before Departure”); Crazy Horse (“Runaway”); Georgia Review (“The Little Towns of West Texas”); GSU Review (“It Is Raining”); Iron Horse Literary Review (“Destination”); Lucid Stone (“Yes Miss Emily”); Ohio Review (“Here in Ecuador,” “The Hole,” “King of Roses”); Paris Review (“The Golden Jubilee,” “Miranda of the Sorrows”); Puerto del Sol (“Borderland”); Rattle (“In Search of History,” “Lugubrious”); Seneca Review (“The Gates of Paradise”); Solo (“Dichos,” “Letter from Cuernavaca ”); Washington Square (“Canes”). “Glen Canyon on the Colorado” first appeared in The Forgotten Language, edited by Christopher Merrill (Peregrine Smith, 1991). “South Paradise,” “The Wrong Room,” and “Brief Communications from My Widowed Mother” first appeared in The Other Side of the Story (Con- fluence Press, 1987). 109 ...

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