The Zones of Paradise

Acknowledgments

 I am grateful to the editors of the following magazines where these poems first appeared, some in slightly different versions: Appalachian Heritage: “At the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge”; The Carolina Quarterly: “Garden Passages,” “Verses for The Madonna of Humility with theTemptation of Eve”; Image: A Journal of Religion and the Arts: “Rendezvous in Low Light” (under the title “Epiphany”); The Bookpress Quarterly: “Gospel”; The Mossy Creek Reader: “Black Orchids,” “Varieties of Religious Experience”; Now &Then: “Aspiration”; PMS poemmemoirstory: “Snowscape”; Seneca Review: “Lynn”; The Southern Review: “In Praise of My Daughter’s Insolence,” “Revival,” “Swamp Genesis”; Spirituality & Health: “Rescue”; U. S.  Worksheets: “ColdValentine.” “Gospel” was reprinted in Spirituality & Health. “Revival” was reprinted in Verse Daily. “Aspiration” was reprinted in Cornbread Nation :The Best of Southern Food Writing, edited by John Egerton (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, ), and in Home & Away: A University Brings Food to theTable, edited by Fred Sauceman (Johnson City, Tenn.: EastTennessee State University Press, ). “Acceptance Speech” first appeared in OTaste and See: Food Poems, edited by David Garrison andTerry Hermsen (Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, ). The epigraph to section II is from Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet, First Dalkey Archive ed. (Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, ), .The verse from Song of Songs which serves as the epigraph to section III is a translation by Robert Alter from The Art of Biblical Poetry. I am very grateful to Dan Stinebring and our children Anna-Claire and Jesse for their enthusiasm and support, to Susan Grimm for helpful lunches over rough drafts, and to the group of poets who gave me steady companionship and critique during the writing of these poems: Bob Dial,Tom Dukes, Elton Glaser, Steven Haven, Jeanne Hulstine, Kolter Kiess, Michelle Moore, Jana Russ, ChristopherWhite, and the late Ruth Fuquen. Elton Glaser was especially helpful with the completion and editing of this book. About the Author Lynn Powell, a native of EastTennessee, lives in Oberlin, Ohio with her husband and two children. Her first book, Old & NewTestaments (University of Wisconsin Press), won the  Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the  Great Lakes Colleges Association NewWriters Award. About the Book The Zones of Paradise was designed and typeset by Amy Petersen, with help from Amy Housely.The typeface, Centaur, was designed by Bruce Rogers in .The cover was designed and typeset by Jodi Gabor. The Zones of Paradise was printed on 60-poundWriters Natural and bound by McNaughton & Gunn of Saline, Michigan. ...