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The following poems were originally published (some in slightly differently form) in the following publications:
“Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” in Poetry Magazine, 2009
“Separation” in The New York Quarterly, Issue 66, 2010
“Great Plain” and “Field Manual” in The Sun, 2010
“Cumberland Gap,” “Songs in Planck Time,” “The Torch and Pitchfork Blues,” and “The Abhorrence of Coincidence” in diode, 2011
“Death, Mother and Child” and “After Leaving McGuire Veterans’ Hospital for the Last Time” in Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2012
“The Locks of the James” in Huck, 2013
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