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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

The following poems appeared in slightly different form at: “The Boy under the Car” (Boston Review); “Blackout,” “Fish” (Brick); “The Heat,” “Oslo,” “The Unknowing” (Buenos Aires Review); “English Hours, Three Pieces of Advice,” “Legend,” “Repeat” (The Common);“Bomb Shelters of the Oligarchs” (Harvard Review); “Maps,” “28th Street” (H.O.W. Journal); “Coins,” “Paris (Bastille Day),” Repair,” “Wimbledon” (The Iowa Review); “The Blinding,” “Summer 1995”(Narrative); “Barbers” (The Nation); “Allowances,” “Rocklin”(The New Yorker); “Beirut,” “The Money” (The Paris Review);“The Last,” “Mail” (Prairie Schooner); “Return,” “Witness This”(Virginia Quarterly Review); “Still Life,” “Tattoo” (Zyzzyva).

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