The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog

Acknowledgments

69 ACknowledGmentS My gratitude to the following journals in which some of these poems first appeared, some in earlier versions or with different titles: American Poetry Review: “The Vow of the Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog,” “Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains,” “The Drink Triptych,” “Panel Discussion: How Wrong Is Sophocles,” “The Moment on Stage I,” “Anger I: Grey Cement,” and “Awakening”; Cortland Review: “Outsiders” and “The Promise Triptych”; 5AM: “The Beautiful Morning Triptych,” “The Fear Triptych,” “Try To,” and “Ridiculous”; Hampton-Sydney Review: “The Synagogue of the Ear of Corn” and “Sweet Chariot”; Harvard Review: “I Want To Live”; Lips: “Bright Star and Devil Moon”; Massachusetts Review: “They Speak of Race,” “Paw on Your Lap,” and “In War Time”; New Yorker: “Wrong About the Horse”; Pleiades: “Brightness Falls from the Air,” “Liberty,” and “What Is Now Proved Was Once Only Imagined”; Poetry: “Song,” “April,” “In Every Life,” and “Soften and Melt”; Prairie Schooner: “Snow Day,” “The Sorrow Triptych,” “The Arts,” “The Moment on Stage,” “The Beginning of Time,” and “Anger II: Rape”; Zeek (online): “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog,” which also previously appeared in my collection The Book of Seventy. I am deeply grateful for the support and suggestions of my wom-po workshop sisters, and to Mary Campbell, Rebecca Howell, Wendy Barker, Ann-Marie Macari, Yerra Sugarman, Peter Pitzele, Toi Derricotte, C. K. Williams, and my generous and astute editor Ed Ochester. And thanks to JPO, another old dog, for a marriage of true minds and for enjoying these poems. ...