In the Permanent Collection

Acknowledgments

ix Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following journals, in which these poems previously appeared: Alehouse: “Star Chart” and “Sleeping Song” Antioch Review: “Permanent Collection” Boston Review: “Blind King,” “Likeness,” “Vaudeville,” and “You’re in the Picture” Cavalier Literary Couture: “To a Friend, on Living Alone” Chariton Review: “Spiritual Exercises,” “Strip Mall,” “Weed Guide,” and “The Zombie” Cimarron Review: “Surrender” Court Green: “A Story about Show Business” Gargoyle: “Careless Simile” Kenyon Review Online: “Lucky” Memorious: “Long Occupation” Muzzle: “Spring” New Orleans Review: “The Transparent Fabulist” Pleiades: “Everyone Was Dead and I Went On, Drunk” Sixth Finch: “Low Definition” Smartish Pace: “Mortuary Art” and “Reform, Missouri” Subtropics: “Family Plot” Sugar House Review: “The Gallow Ball (1950)” Tusculum Review: “Reasons for Living Happily” A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S x Acknowledgments Whiskey Island: “Compact Mirror” Yale Review: “Twelve Bar Blues” Zócalo Public Square: “Sibling Gothic” I am also grateful to the University of Missouri Department of English and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska, for support during the writing of this book. Thank you to my teachers and mentors: Lynne McMahon, Scott Cairns, Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren, Aliki Barnstone, and Alex Socarides. Thanks to Gabe Fried for unwavering belief in this book through its various stages and to Sarah Barber, Jessica Garratt, Katy Didden, Marc McKee, and Camellia Cosgray for generous reading and strict deadlines. Thanks to Rob Foreman for everything, including Moriah Foreman. ...