Chapel of Inadvertent Joy

Acknowledgments

73 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to the editors of the following publications, where earlier versions of the following poems first appeared: “Track of Now,” “Mapache,” “Hello,” “Fifty-Fifty Ball,” and “A Brief History of Immortality” appeared in American Poetry Review; “Elliot Spitzer in Grad School,” “The High Heat,” and “Legacy is a piece of toilet paper hanging out of your pants at a family reunion” appeared in A Poetry Congeries, Connotations Press: An Online Artifact; “Keeper of the Light,” “The Cuckold Explores the Subjunctive,” and “Satan Exulting Over Eve” appeared in B O D Y; “Holiday Weekend,” “from The Cuckold’s Survival Manual,” and “Lust in Translation” appeared in Columbia Poetry Review; “Happy Marriage” and “Attention, Please” appeared in Crab Orchard Review; “Queen of the Shortcuts” appeared in Field; “Return to El Perdido Mundo” appeared in Gulf Coast; “The Barbecued Man” and “A Brief History of the Future” appeared in the Nashville Review; “undocumented joyrider in the land of the flesh” and “The Cuckold and the Penal System” appeared in No Comment; “Chapel of Inadvertent Joy,” “I Am Not an Idiot,” “Half-Breed,” and “The Cuckold in Autumn” appeared in The Operating System; “The Cuckold Sees the Bigger Picture,” “Life as a Donkey,” “Interview with a Cuckold,” and “Middle Age” appeared in Pear Noir; “Conditionals,” “Pity Party,” and “Reflections of a Cuckold and Other Blasphemies” appeared in Ping Pong; “The Birds and the Bees” and “Beware of the Dark Sedan” appeared in Ploughshares; “The Furies” appeared in Sixteen; “The Grudge,” “poem beginning with a line from Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues,’” “Kicking the Lust 74 Bucket,” and “A Brief History of Neon” appeared in Sonora Review; “Reckoning” and “Cleaves” appeared in Southern California Review; “Keeper of the Light,” “Youngest Brother Turning Forty,” and “A Brief History of Eyebrows” appeared in S T I L L: Magazin fur junge Literatur & Fotografe; “The Cougar Tree,” “Pick-up Lines of the Marquis de Sade,” and “The Cuckold Contemplates the Malibu Fires” appeared in Stone Cutter; “Little Soldier of Love” and “Yard Work” appeared in the Sugarhouse Review. “The Grudge” was reprinted in Best American Poetry 2010, edited by Amy Gerstler. “Conditionals” and “Queen of the Shortcuts” were reprinted in Der Greif (Germany), December 2011, edited by Lydia Daher. “poem beginning with a line from Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’” grew out of a poetic challenge devised by Roddy Lumsden. Various poets were randomly given lines from “Subterranean Homesick Blues” to be used as an opening. “Satan Exulting Over Eve” is based on William Blake’s drawing of the same name. The poem was presented at the Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles in September 2011, in conjunction with the Dark Blushing exhibit, curated by Mindy Netifee and Amber Tamblyn. Thank you to Amy Gerstler and Kendra DeColo for reading earlier drafts of this book and providing valuable feedback. Thank you to Drew O’Leary and David Morrison for your decades of friendship and support. May your spirits be free of the burdens of this world. ...