Listening Long and Late

Acknowledgments

77 Acknowledgments My thanks to the editors of the following publications in which these poems, some in a different version, appeared or are forthcoming: basalt: “To Po Chü-i,” “The Canyon”; Bear Flag Republic: “The Banjo Dream”; Connotations Press: An Online Artifact: “Another Spring,” “The Train Station in Milan”; Cortland Review: “The Rag Rug”; 5 A.M.: “Elegy for the Poet Charles Moulton”; Malpaís Review: “Poem on my 79th Birthday”; Miramar: “California was another one,” “The Shirt,” “The Snake,” “Night Crawlers”; New Yorker: “Aubade in Autumn”; Ploughshares: “After the funeral,” “One for the 5-String,” “Rain,” “A Story Can Change Your Life”; Poetry East: “Homage to Tu Fu”; Sentence, a journal of prose poetics: “Absences” (four prose poems from “Traces”); Tygerburning: “The Beginning of Country Music,” “Accordions.” “Aubade in Autumn” was reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2008, edited by Charles Wright and David Lehman (New York: Scribner’s, 2008), and in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008, edited by Philip Zaleski (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008). “A Story Can Change Your Life” also appeared in the Poetry Foundation’s American Life in Poetry. Nahuatl versions also appeared in my Working the Song Fields (Cheney: Eastern Washington University, 2009). My translations of Natan Zach also appeared in The Countries We Live In (Portland: Tavern Books, 2011). “Rain” was reprinted in Pushcart Prize XXXIV, 2010, edited by Bill Henderson (Wainscott: Pushcart Press, 2010), and in the Poetry Foundation’s American Life in Poetry. 78 “Traces” was published in a limited letterpress edition as an artist’s book, with etchings and poichoir by Bill Kelly (San Diego: Brighton Press, 2010). I wish to thank Shulamit Yasny-Starkman for her essential help with the Natan Zach translations. Thanks also to my first readers: Bill Broder, Christopher Buckley, C. G. Hanzlicek, Connie Lake, Philip Levine, and Robert Mezey for their generous support. I am especially grateful to Ed Ochester, who kept me on track. ...