Seeing Eye

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to thank the editors of the following magazines and presses for their support and for their permission to reprint these stones here. “The Mayor of the Sister City Talks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon,” in Sundog. “Dish Night,” “Meat,” “What I See,” “The Teakwood Deck of the USS Indiana,” “Limited,” and “Highlights” in Indiana Review. “Lice” and “Fidel” in The Florida Review. “Three Tales of the Sister City” in Telescope. “Guam,” “Blue Hair,” and “Turning the Constellation” in Colorado Review. “The War That Never Ends” in High Plains literary Review. “Chatty Cathy Falls into the Wrong Hands” in The Laurel Review. “Evaporation” in Sycamore Review. “Miners” in Aura. “Elkhart, There, at the End of the World” in Indiana Writes. “On the Highway of Vice Presidents,” “On the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,” “On Anesthesia,” “On The Little Prince,” and “On Snipe Hunting” in Exquisite Corpse. “On Snipe Hunting” also appeared in Harper’s. “On the State of the Union,” “On Late-Night TV,” and “On Barbie” in Story. “On 911” and “On Quayleito” in The Iowa Review. “It’s Time” in The North American Review. “Seeing Eye” in The Arts Indiana Literary Supplement. “Outside Peru” in Epoch. “Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle” appeared as a chapbook published by Broad Ripple Press. “The Teakwood Deck of the USS Indiana,” “On the State of the Union,” “On Hoosier Hysteria,” “On Planet of the Apes,” and “Fidel” also appeared in different versions in Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitlers List, published by Indiana University Press. “It’s Time” was included in Voices Louder Than Words, edited by William Shore, published by Vintage Books. “Seeing Eye” was included in The Company of Dogs, edited by Michael J. Rosen, published by Doubleday.

The author also wishes to thank Michael Rosen, Susan Neville, Joseph Trimmer, Chris Leland and Osvaldo Sabino, Susan Dodd, Nancy Esposito, David Rivard and Michaela Sullivan, and, of course, Sallie Gouverneur.

And a generous grant for the completion of this book was provided by Theresa Pappas. “Diastema, we fit together.”