ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The poems in this collection first appeared from 1974 to 2000 in the following publications. Grateful acknowledgment remembers the editors of The American Poetry Review: “Cuylerville” (section 2 of “Six Places in New York State”), “Heron Weather,” “In Defense of Ellis Hollow Creek,” “There Is No Real Peace in the World”; American Review: “Blue Poles”; The KGB Bar Book of Poems: “Astropastoral”; Lit: “The pays d’en haut Sublime”; The Nation: “Sagg Beach”; The New Yorker: “Color Peak Weekend,” “Toronto Means the Meeting Place”; Oxford Poetry (U.K.): “True Solar Holiday”; Parenthèse: “Life in a Small Neighborhood,” “The One Who Crossed the Hudson,” “To a Watertower”; The Paris Review: “Abraham Lincoln in Cleveland,” “The Continent as the Letter M,” “Theme Park”; Partisan Review: “America Began in Houses”; Poetry: “Pultneyville,” “The Pinnacle Range,” “Genesee Falls,” “Chim ney Bluff ” (sections 3 through 6 of “Six Places in New York State”), “Chelsea Square,” “The Day Line,” “Experience and What To Make of It,” “Gunpowder Morning in a Gray Room,” “The House at Sagg,” “In the Fall When It’s Time To Leave,” “The Lake Effect,” “Locale,” “The Revisionist,” “The Winter House”; Poetry in Motion: “Once the Sole Province”; Poetry Northwest: “Covenant,” “In Memory of My Country,” “Replevin,” “Trover”; Shenandoah: “Felix Culpa Returns from France”; Some Other Magazine: “Creation du Monde”; William and Mary Review: “Refuge”; Yale Review: “To the Light Fantastic”; ZZZ: “Saggaponnack” (section 1 of “Six Places in New York State”), “Great Fennville Swamp,” “Summer”; and ZZZZZZ: “The Elegy for New York,” “When Spring Comes First to West 21st Street,” “Whiteout.” Several poems have meanwhile been reprinted in other publications, including The Agriculture Reader: “The Revisionist”; American Poetry Annual 123