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86 ACKnOWlEDGmEnTS Thanks to the following journals, presses, and all the selfless editors who both published the following poems and, on occasion, made them significantly better: American Poetry Review: “Intimacy”; Asian American Literary Review: “Easter in Lisbon”; Black Warrior Review: “An Enemy”; diode: “The Orchard”; Ecotone: “Voyeurs,” “Flowers From a New Love after the Divorce”; Isotope: “Dragonflies”; The Journal: “A Small-Soul-Colored Thing” (published as “Whoso List to Hunt”; reprinted in Poems of the American West, 2010); Kenyon Review: “Arctic Scale,” “Happiness” (“Happiness” reproduced on Poetry Daily and Best New Poems Online); Missouri Review: “Why Some Girls Love Horses,” “Yes,” “Possibilities in Love,” “Closer” (“Why Some Girls Love Horses” reprinted in Pushcart Prize XXXIV, Best of the Presses, 2010); New England Review: “Feel Like a Little Trepanning Today?,” “Tango Lesson”; Redactions: “Body of Stuffed Female Fox, Natural History Museum,” “Nightingale”; Utah ‘BiteSized Poem’ videos: “Swallow”; Virginia Quarterly Review: “Ballard Locks”; Willow Springs: “Homage for Levis”; Witness: “Wax.” Deep gratitude for the art history scholarship of Dr. Lela Graybill, without which “Wax” could not have come to be. “The Orchard” is a response/homage to “Pears” by Robert Hass: thanks to him and his work. Thanks to the keen eyes of Lisa Bickmore, Susan Brown, Andrea Hollander Budy, Kimberly Johnson, Natasha Sajé, and Jennifer Tonge. Thanks to Jeffrey McDaniel. Thanks to grants from the Tanner Humanities Center and the Utah Arts Council. Thanks to the fine folks at Pitt. Thanks to Kundiman and to all my friends and family. Finally, eternal thanks to Sean. I really can’t believe you put up with this. ...

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