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Acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications in which several of the poems in this book first appeared: The Dark Horse, Janus, The Nation, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and The Yale Review. “A Paper Cut,” “Remainders,” “Called Back,” “Solving for X,” “QWERTY,” “Letter of Recommendation,” “Making Do,” “Up and Away,” “Other Eyes,” “Waste,” “Waiting Room,” and “Out of Character” first appeared in Poetry. “Wishing Well” is reprinted from volume 3, number 1 of Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, © 2001. Used by permission of the ALSC. “Drowned Towns” and “The Devil’s Garden” appeared in a chapbook co-authored with Edgar Bowers and William Conelly: Drowned Towns and Other Poems of Place (Hatfield, Mass.: The Van Zora Press, 2000). “Shoptalk: Ten Epigrams” appeared in the chapbook anthology Profile Full Face (Hatfield, Mass.: The Van Zora Press, 2001).

Many of the facts in “Drowned Towns” are drawn from two books by J. R. Greene: The Creation of Quabbin Reservoir and The Day Four Quabbin Towns Died, both published by The Transcript Press, Athol, Massachusetts. Other material was derived from informational booklets available at the Quabbin Visitors’ Center.