Acknowledgments

Thanks infinitely and eternally to my amazing spouse, best friend, and first editor, Jessica Knight. So grateful for all the time, intelligence, and vision you’ve given these poems.

Thanks to my kids, Nico and Ramona, for love, laughter, and inspiring weirdness.

Thanks to Randall Heath, Sarah Fox, and Kevin Carollo for all the creative collaboration that helped hatch many of these poems.

Thanks to everyone who read and offered feedback to early versions of this book, including Eric Lorberer, Paula Cisewski, and Sarah Fox.

Thanks to the editors of the following magazines in which many of these poems were previously published: Boston Review; the Boog Reader; Columbia Poetry Review; Denver Quarterly; Forklift, Ohio; Indiana Review; jubilat; the Literary Review; Make; the Nation; Poetry City, USA; Revolver; the Third Rail; and Volt.

Thanks to Kevin A. Gonzalez and Lauren Shapiro for including “Rearview” (with a different title) and two other poems of mine in The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.

Thanks to Kelly Everding and Eric Lorberer of Rain Taxi Review of Books, who first published “Surveillance Video of a Bridge” (with a different title) in a chapbook called Bridge: A Gathering, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

Thanks to all those who help make the Minneapolis/St. Paul poetry community so vibrant and nurturing, including William Waltz, Dobby Gibson, Matt Mauch, Mary Austin Speaker, Chris Martin, Tish Jones, Kathryn Kysar, Betsy Brown, Ed Bok Lee, KateLynn Hibbard, Valérie Déus, Morgan Willow, Greg Hewett, Sun Yung Shin, G. E. Patterson, Rachel Moritz, Matt Rasmussen, Patrick Werle, Luke Pingel, Elisabeth Workman, and Douglas Kearney.

Thanks to everyone at Coffee House Press for believing in this book and for promoting the social mission of literature, including Chris Fischbach, Erika Stevens, Lizzie Davis, Carla Valadez, and Jay Peterson.

This book was written while listening to the music of William Basinski, Federico Durand, Hakobune, Wil Bolton, Chihei Hatakeyama, Sarah Davachi, Christopher Bissonnette, Nobuto Suda, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Marcus Fischer, Pausal, Christopher Hipgrave, Simon Bainton, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Taylor Deupree, willamette, Tomasz Bednarczyk.