by Adam McOmber
The Collagist: “Versailles, 1623”;
Conjunctions: “The Re’em”;
Diagram: “Notes on Inversion”;
The Fairy Tale Review: “History of a Saint”;
Fifth Wednesday: “Petit Trianon”;
Hayden’s Ferry Review: “Homunculus”;
Hobart: “Swaingrove”;
Kenyon Review: “Sodom and Gomorrah”;
Knee-Jerk Magazine: “Poet and Underworld”;
Law and Disorder Anthology: “The Rite of Spring”;
Ninth Letter: “Metempsychosis”;
The Portland Review: “The Coil”;
Sequestrum: “Hydrophobia”;
Vestiges: “Sleep and Death.”
My gratitude to Peter Conners for his continued support of my work and to Eleanor Jackson who provides invaluable guidance at every turn. For their thoughts on the stories in this collection and for their enduring friendship, I’d like to thank Brian Leung, Scott Blindauer, Gabriel Blackwell, Chrissy Kolaya, Colin Meldrum, Christine Sneed, Tyler Pottebaum, Mike Bailey, and Josh Hoffman. Thank you to my family, especially my mother, Denise Skevington, and my father, Michael McOmber. Thank you to Chris Baugh for helping me find the energy and spirit to complete this collection. And finally, thank you to Cal Burton for his constant encouragement and love.
About the Author
Adam McOmber is the author of The White Forest: A Novel (Touchstone, 2012) and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA Editions, 2011). His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, and Diagram. He teaches and writes in Los Angeles.
BOA Editions, Ltd. American Reader Series
No. 1
Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth
Prose by Blaise Cendrars
Translated by Bertrand Mathieu
No. 2
Pig Notes & Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry
By William Heyen
No. 3
After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches
By W. D. Snodgrass
No. 4
Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry
By Stephen Dunn
No. 5
To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry
By W. D. Snodgrass
No. 6
You Alone Are Real to Me: Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke
By Lou Andreas-Salomé
No. 7
Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll
No. 8
I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These
By Anthony Tognazzini
No. 9
Unlucky Lucky Days
By Daniel Grandbois
No. 10
Glass Grapes and Other Stories
By Martha Ronk
No. 11
Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters
By Jessica Treat
No. 12
On the Winding Stair
By Joanna Howard
No. 13
Cradle Book
By Craig Morgan Teicher
No. 14
In the Time of the Girls
By Anne Germanacos
No. 15
This New and Poisonous Air
By Adam McOmber
No. 16
To Assume a Pleasing Shape
By Joseph Salvatore
No. 17
The Innocent Party
By Aimee Parkison
No. 18
Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words
Interviews by Tony Leuzzi
No. 19
The Era of Not Quite
By Douglas Watson
No. 20
The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
By Li-Young Lee
No. 21
Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories
By Aurelie Sheehan
No. 22
The Tao of Humiliation
By Lee Upton
No. 23
Bridge
By Robert Thomas
No. 24
Reptile House
By Robin McLean
No. 25
The Education of a Poker Player
By James McManus
No. 26
Remarkable
By Dinah Cox
No. 27
Gravity Changes
By Zach Powers
No. 28
My House Gathers Desires
By Adam McOmber
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