The Americans

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

77 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you to the editors of publications in which these poems first appeared , sometimes in alternate formats or with different titles: American Poetry Review: “Self-Portrait as David Hockney,” “SelfPortrait as David Lynch”; Birmingham Poetry Review: “Landscape with Tyrian Purple”; Cave Wall: “Passionflower”; Copper Nickel: “The Locusts”; Four Way Review: “Dear Suburb,” (“Some blunt hammering set me off…”); Georgia Review: “After de Tocqueville”; Inch: “Dear Suburb,” (“Just once I’d like to come home…”); Indiana Review: “Akhmatova’s Ashtray”; Memorious: “As When Drought Imagines Fire,” “35 Miller Drive”; Meridian: “California Clouds,” “New Directive”; New Orleans Review: “Love Field”; Notre Dame Review: “Eros and Dust”; Orion: “Dear Suburb,” (“When I say my porch is low and wide…”); Poetry: “Dear Suburb,” (“I’m not interested in sadness…”), “Faithful See Virgin Mary in Office Window”; Poetry Daily: “Pastoral”; Quarterly West: “Running Brush” (“Shoots hug the lake…”); The Rumpus: “Target,” “Terra Incognita”; Salt Hill: “13 Pleasant Street,” “44 Standish Avenue”; Shenandoah: “Green Fields”; Southern Review: “Pastoral,” “Running Brush” (“Basho said to refuse a prayer…”); Slate: “Thoreau’s Beans”; Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry: “Dear Suburb,” (“Must you tremble…”). I would like to express gratitude to the trustees of the Amy Lowell Trust for supporting my work at a critical stage and to my colleagues in UNCG’s MFA Program for their faith and friendship. Special thanks to the editors of Shenandoah for awarding “Green Fields” the 2012 James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry and to Phillis Levin, Vijay Seshadri, and Elizabeth Spires for selecting a group of these poems as the co-winner of the 2012 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. For their critical suggestions and moral support, I’m grateful to Geoff Brock, Keith Ekiss, Robin Ekiss, Jeff Hoffman, Tom Kealey, Megan Snyder- 78 Camp Lehman, Shara Lessley, Alan Shapiro, Ed Skoog, Julia Ridley Smith, Bruce Snider, Tess Taylor, and C. Dale Young. Thank you to Ed Ochester for his faith in these poems and to the outstanding editorial and production staff at the University of Pittsburgh Press. Rodericks, Halls, Finnegans, Richardsons, and Jacksons, you’re the best. ...