Domestic Interior

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of these publications, in which the following poems first appeared: American Poetry Review (“TheAbyss Stares Back atYou,”“After the End, Hope for the Beginning,” “The Alcoholic and the Ball and Chain,” “Black and White,” “Bougainvillea,” “Camp,” “The Devouring Father,” “Domestic Interior,” “Education ,” “Hope for the Hopeless,” “I ObserveThis Morphic Field,” “Indoors,” “Invective ,”“John Barleycorn,”“Library,”“‘Liking Something Is Not Enough,’”“The Mother Becomes the Mother of Herself as Well,” “Peace,” “Pension,Venezia,” “Prescription Pills,”“Private School,”“The Satanists Next Door,”“See,e.g.,Hildegarde , Fatima, Blake, McLuhan,” “Self-Portrait at the End of the First Half of My Life,”“Snobs,”“The Staff Lounge,”“TheWorldWillAsk forYour Greed,Envy, and Sloth”); Kestrel:A Journal of Literature andArt (“NotToo Serious,”“TenYears”); Pool (“Calm Down!,”“Roommates:Noblesse Oblige,Sprezzatura,and Gin Lane”); Slope (“Invective,” reprinted in Slope 17); LIT (“The Family Jewels”). “Roommates:Noblesse Oblige,Sprezzatura,and Gin Lane”appeared in The BestAmerican Poetry 2005. 83 ...