What's a Sweetheart is the collective title of a series
			of ten poems. As I was working on the series, I was
			cutting down language to its needful elements. I had a
			recurring vision of myself crouched outside a small
			cottage, tossing pebbles over the threshold. I wanted
			these poems to be full of breath and pause, hanging
			together on the barest thread. At the time, I was
	< back to poetry titles		reading John Donne, Emily Dickinson and John Ashbery
	< back to image		and listening to a great deal of Bob Dylan and Neil
	< back to giornata.net		Diamond. I was living in a trailer overlooking a vineyard
			in northern California.
			— Lacy Schutz
			Selections from What’s a Sweetheart have been
			published in the following journals:
			To Which a Scoundrel Clings
			Mid-American Review, v. xxvi, no. 2, Fall 2005
			The Land of Permanent Bliss
			Fence, Fall/Winter 2004-2005
			To Be Here, Honey
			Diagram 5.5, 2004
			Doing in a Place Like This
			Denver Quarterly, v. 39, no. 2, 2004
			We Grieved
			Seneca Review, v. xxxiii, no. 2, 2003