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“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.

PENGUIN POETS
    JOHN ASHBERY
    Selected Poems
    Self-Portrait in a Covex Mirror
    TED BERRIGAN
    The Sonnets
    LAUREN BERRY
    The Lifting Dress
    JOE BONOMO
    Installations
    PHILIP BOOTH
    Selves
    JULIANNE BUCHSBAUM
    The Apothecary's Heir
    JIM CARROLL
    Fear and Dreaming: The Seclected Poems
    Living at the Movies
    Void of Course
    ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING
    Genius Loci
    Rope
    CARL DENNIS
    Callings
    New and Selected Poems 1974–2004
    Practical Gods
    Ranking the Wishes
    Unknown Friends
    DIANE DI PRIMA
    Loba
    STUART DISCHELL
    Backwards Days
    Dig Safe
    STEPHEN DOBYNS
    Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966–1992
    EDWARD DORN
    Way More West: New and Selected Poems
    ROGER FANNING
    The Middle Ages
    ADAM FOULDS
    The Broken Word
    CARRIE FOUNTAIN
    Burn Lake
    AMY GERSTLER
    Crown of Weeds: Poems
    Dearest Creature
    Ghost Girl
    Medicine
    Nerve Storm
    EUGENE GLORIA
    Drivers at the Short-Time Motel
    Hoodlum Birds
    My Favorite Warlord
    DEBORA GREGER
    By Herself
    Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters
    God
    Men, Women, and Ghosts
    Western Art
    TERRANCE HAYES
    Hip Logic
    Lighthead
    Wind in a Box
    NATHAN HOKS
    The Narrow Circle
    ROBERT HUNTER
    Sentinel and Other Poems
    MARY KARR
    Viper Rum
    WILLIAM KECKLER
    Sanskrit of the Body
    JACK KEROUAC
    Book of Sketches
    Book of Blues
    Book of Haikus
    JOANNA KLINK
    Circadian
    Raptus
    JOANNE KYGER
    As Ever: Selected Poems
    ANN LAUTERBACH
    Hum
    If in Time: Selected Poems, 1975–2000
    On a Stiar
    Or to Begin Again
    Under the Sign
    CORINNE LEE
    Pyx
    PHILLIS LEVIN
    May Day
    Mercury
    WILLIAM LOGAN
    Macbeth in Venice
    Madame X
    Srange Flesh
    The Whispering Gallery
    ADRIAN MATEJKA
    The Big Smoke
    Mixology
    MICHAEL MCCLURE
    Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems
    DAVID MELTZER
    David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer
    ROBERT MORGAN
    Terroir
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    An Octave Above Thunder
    Red