“A Summer Primer,” “The Neighbors Upstairs”), and American Arts Quarterly (“The Curlew”).
“The Baptist” was selected as the winner of the 2013 Morton Marr Poetry Prize. “Auguress” was also published online at Poetry Daily. “Harvest,” “Crop Circles,” and “The Choice” also appeared in limited edition broadsides by Yellow Flag Press. “The Seven Thunders,” “The Curlew,” and “The Choice” appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IV (Texas Review Press, 2011).
Thanks also to Stanford University, Texas Tech University, and McNeese State University for generous fellowships and grants that allowed me to complete this book.
“The Choice” is for Aaron Kelly and Mike Wiley; “The Seven Thunders” is for Morri Creech; “The Orchard” is in memory of Virginia Shewmaker.
For the fallen
If in ly3t we witnesse puyr devynyte, þen shadowe herberwen our humanyte.
—Anonymous fragment, 14th century
Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.
—Baudelaire, “The Albatross”
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On a Chinese Festival Scene Carved into the Casque of a Helmeted Hornbill
