Holy Heathen Rhapsody (6 page)

With thanks for the tenacious and devoted work of the editors of the following journals in which the poems listed were first published, and thanks to the editors of all such journals and magazines that provide venues for the publication of poetry.

American Scientist
: “Holy Heathen Rhapsody”

ARTline
: “Blue Heavens”

Ecotone
: “Co-evolution: Seduction”; “Summer's Company (Multiple Universes)”

Field
: “Scarlatti Sonata Testament”

Georgia Review
: “At Work”; “Night and the Creation of Geography”; “Yearning Ways”

Image
: “Hail, Spirit”; “Speak, Rain”

The Iowa Review
: “Edging Dusk,
Ars Poetica
”; “In the Silence Following”; “Less Than a Whisper Poem”

Literature and Belief
: “The Snow of Things”; “What Existence”

New Mexico Poetry Review
: “The Earth Without a Spiritual Dimension”

Orion
: “Romance”

Poetry International
: “The Doxology of Shadows”

World Literature Today
: “Signifying (Coming to Earth)”; “The Body Entire”

My thanks to the editors of the following chapbooks in which certain poems in this book appeared:
Lies and Devotions
(Tangram Press) and
Summer's Company
(Brooding Heron Press).

I'm extremely grateful to Paul Slovak for his kindness, his efficient editing, and his insightful and helpful comments on my manuscript.

PHOTO BY JOHN R. ROGERS

Pattiann Rogers has published eleven books of poetry and two collections of essays. Her most recent books are
The Grand Array: Writings on Nature, Science, and Spirit
(Trinity University Press, 2010) and
Wayfare
(Penguin, 2008).
Song of the World Becoming: New and Collected Poems 1981–2001
(Milkweed Editions) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and an Editor's Choice in
Booklist
.
Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems
was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award and a
Publishers Weekly
Best Book of 1994. Rogers is the recipient of two NEA Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2005 Literary Award in Poetry from the Lannan Foundation. Her poems have won three prizes from
Poetry
, the Theodore Roethke Prize from
Poetry Northwest
, two Strousse Awards from
Prairie Schooner
, and five Pushcart Prizes. Her work has appeared in
Best American Poetry
in 1996 and 2009, and in
Best Spiritual Writing
, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2010. Rogers's papers are archived in the Sowell Family Collection of Literature, Community, and the Natural World at Texas Tech University. She has been a visiting writer at numerous universities and colleges and was an associate professor at the University of Arkansas from 1993–97. She is the mother of two sons and has three grandsons. She lives with her husband, a retired geophysicist, in Colorado.