Tiger Heron

Acknowledgments

67 Acknowledgments I thank the editors of the following publications in which these poems, some in different versions, appeared: American Poetry Review: “And So Forth,” “Dog Person,” “Dyke,” “Elegy for the Northern Flying Squirrel,” “Her Lies,” “Herself,” “In Montefiore Cemetery,” “Late June Owl,” “Our Best Selves,” “The Sounds of Yiddish,” “Understory,” “Wearing Mother’s High School Ring,”; BigCityLit.com: “A Last Go” as “A Last Go at Pleasure,” “Listening to Bach on Rte. 89”; Poet Lore: “The Weight”; Prairie Schooner: “Divers,” “Holiday,” “Hospice,” “Old Florida,” “Prairie Dogs,” “Repair,” “Rescue Parable,” “Storm King,” “Sculpture Park,” “The Plum Tree,” “Harriers” as “Venetian”; Slate: “Xenia.” “Kouros” appeared in the Massachusetts Review, volume 49, numbers 1 and 2. “When You Look at the Spines of Your Books” appeared in upstreet, number 9 (Ledgetop Publishing, 2013). For a sabbatical during which I wrote many of these poems, I thank the College of Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania State University. I thank the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico for a residency grant in Taos. Thanks to Phyllis Hotch for the casita on the mesa and to Frankie B. and Harvey Tolman for the cabin on the mowing. For their reading and counsel on the manuscript, I thank Julie Abraham, James Brasfield, John Daniels, Sally Greenberg, Eloise Klein Healy, Charlotte Holmes, Maren Hubbard, Merrill Kaitz, Susanna Kaysen, Leslie Lawrence, Amy Lang, Khyber Oser, Carolyn Sachs, and Marianne Weil. ...