That Said (27 page)

 

This volume was the third recipient of the Juniper Prize, presented annually by the University of Massachusetts Press for a volume of original poetry.

 

My gratitude to the Radcliffe Institute and to the Massachusetts Endowment for the Arts and Humanities for their support.

 

THE MINUTE HAND (1987)

 

The Antioch Review:
“A Clock,” “A Luna Moth,” “Wood.”
The Iowa Review:
“High Holy Days.”
The New Republic:
“Dresses,” “The Glass Slipper,” “Persian Miniature,” “Pharaoh.”
Pequod
(Secret Destinations: Writers on Travel): “The Island.”
Ploughshares:
“Anthony,” “The Russian Doll.”
Poetry:
“Tender Acre,” “Young Woman on the Flying Trapeze.”
The Seattle Review:
“Thumbelina.”
The Yale Review:
“The Game of Jack Straws.”

 

This volume was the 1986 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. Judges for 1986: Philip Booth, Louise Glück, and Mary Oliver.

 

My gratitude to the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) for their support.

 

MUSIC MINUS ONE (1996)

 

The G. W. Review:
“Missing.”
Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters,
ed. Faye Moskowitz (Beacon Press, 1994): “The Bad Mother.”
Ploughshares:
“Monday,” “Workout.”
The Virginia Quarterly Review:
“Music Minus One,” “Washing the Streets of Holland.”

 

This volume was a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award.

 

My gratitude to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Alfred Hodder Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and George Washington University for their support.

 

HAPPY FAMILY (1999)

 

Contemporary American Poetry: A Bread Loaf Anthology,
ed. Michael Collier and Stanley Plumly (Middlebury College Press, 1999): “Happiness.”
The George Washington Magazine:
“Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.”
A New England Anthology,
ed. Robert Pack and Jay Parini: “Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.”
Pequod:
“Reprise,” “The Uncanny.”
Salmagundi:
“Mrs. Hitler,” “Shit Soup.”

 

A YES-OR-NO ANSWER (2008)

 

The New Yorker:
“Possession.”
Pequod:
“Trouble Dolls.”
Ploughshares:
“My Mother's Foot,” “Trick Candles.”
Princeton University Library Chronicles,
vol. 63, nos. 1–2 (Autumn 2001–Winter 2002), ed. C. K. Williams: “The Closet,” also published in
Poets of the New Century,
ed. Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson (David R. Godine, 2001).
Salmagundi:
“My Father's Visits,” “The Streak.”
Tikkun:
“Body and Soul.”
TriQuarterly:
“Gelato.”
The Women's Review of Books:
“My Mother's Chair,” “Scrabble in Heaven.”

 

This volume won the Poet's Prize (2010). My gratitude to the twenty-two judges/poets who chose it, and to the Poetry Center of West Chester University, which administered the prize.

 

SPECIAL THANKS

 

Barry Goldensohn, Lorrie Goldensohn, Jody Bolz, Linda Pastan, Ellen Voigt, Louise Glück, Julie Agoos, Nadell Fishman, Stanley Plumly, and to my editor, Michael Collier.

 

DEDICATIONS

 

“Where to Find Us” to David Wyatt.

“The Advent Calendar” to Peggy Rizza.

“Eye Level” to Mary Sheldon.

“The Bad Mother” to Rhea Wilson.

“The Sound of Sense” to Ann Moulton.

“The Streak” to Tim Averill.

“My Mother's Foot” to Stanley Plumly.

“Fugue” to Carole E. Horn.

“Gelato” to Michael Fried and Jill Phillips.

*In Yiddish,
shit-arein
means “to pour in.”

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