The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

Six Girls without Pants

A Crash of Rhinos

Nonfiction

The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam

Intimate: An American Family Photo Album

The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Academy of American Poets: “The Cry,” “Psalm”; Agni, “Four Marys”; The American Poetry Review: “Nightingale: A Gloss”; Fairy Tale Review: “Psyche”; Michigan Quarterly Review: “Gokstadt/Ganymede”; Narrative: “Io,” “The Olive Tree at Vouve,” “Philomela,” “Telling the Wasps,” “Tiresias”; New England Review: “Horn of Plenty”; Ploughshares: “Astyanax”; Poetry: “Driving to Santa Fe,” “The Wolves”; PRISM International: “Knitted Thylacine”; Tin House: “Marsyas,” “Pasiphaë”; Willow Springs: “Pear,” “Pythagorean.”

“Nightingale: A Gloss,” “Philomela,” and “Quiver” were reprinted in Philomela, a chapbook published by Floodgate (2018). Thanks to Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum and all the editors at Floodgate.

“Marsyas” was reprinted in Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets Respond to Ovid. Much gratitude to the editors, Nessa O’Mahony and Paul Munden.

“Philomela” appeared in Best American Poetry 2018, edited by Dana Gioia. “Four Marys” will appear in Best American Poetry 2019, edited by Major Jackson. Sincere thanks to the editors, David Lehman, Dana Gioia, and Major Jackson.

Finally, boundless thanks to the Civitella Ranieri Foundation for a fellowship, and to Dana Prescott for her remarkable lectures on Piero della Francesca: “Four Marys” is for her. “Quiver” is a response/homage to Carl Phillips’s “As from a Quiver of Arrows.” “Pear” is a reimagining of Susan Stewart’s “Apple.” “Io” takes some details from Christina Crosby’s A Body, Undone. Thanks to the University of Utah for support and for the gift of time. Thanks to Lisa Bickmore, Kimberly Johnson, Natasha Sajé, Susan Sample, and Jennifer Tonge. Special thanks to Sass Brown and Melanie Rae Thon for always being willing, generous, and brilliant readers. Thanks to the editorial vision and support of Michael Wiegers, and to the fantastic team at Copper Canyon Press. And thanks, ever and always, to Sean.

The Chinese character for poetry is made up of two parts: “word” and “temple.” It also serves as pressmark for Copper Canyon Press.

Poetry is vital to language and living. Since 1972, Copper Canyon Press has published extraordinary poetry from around the world to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, teachers, students, and donors.

Special thanks

Poetry is vital to language and living. Since 1972, Copper Canyon Press has published extraordinary poetry from around the world to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, teachers, students, and donors.

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