Travels with George, in Search of Ben Hur and Other Meanderings

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Parts of this book were published initially, in some cases under different titles, in the following sources: “The Bowhunter Asks for My Bladder,” Pembroke Magazine “The Boy Who Spoke in Hymns,” Langdon Review “Dobber’s Lighter,” Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review “The Girl in the Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” Pleiades “The Lady with the Quick Simile,” Southern Quarterly “Making a Dam in Segovia,” Southwestern American Literature “The Mosquito,” Alabama Literary Review “Naming the Mussels,” Concho River Review “Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to the Gunshow We Go . . . ,” Literary Review “Rats!” Louisiana Literature “Tight-Rope Walker,” Southern Living “To San Juan and Back,” Boulevard “Trains,” Southern Humanities Review “Travels with George, in Search of Ben Hur,” South Carolina Review “Workshopping a Cowboy Poem,” Southwestern American Literature “The Worst Drink of My Life,” Langdon Review Much of the material here appeared in my column, “Ruffin-It,” in the Huntsville Item. I would like to thank my dear Amber for the hours she put into proofing this book. I certainly thank Linda Fogle of the University of South Carolina Press for her faith in the collection. ...