Thanks to the editors of each of the following, where many of the poems first appeared: Maisonneuve, Brick, Exile, Fiddlehead, ARC, The Capilano Review, New American Writing (US), Karogs (Latvia), Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (Persea Books, New York), and The New Canon (Vehicule Press, Montreal). “On Utility” was commissioned for Germaine Koh Works (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin).
Assistance from The Ontario Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts was invaluable during the writing of this book.
Close friends read these poems and made them better. Where the poems are not better is where I wouldn’t listen. I thank David O’Meara, Karen Solie, Adam Sol, and Laura Repas for their attention and generosity.
My editor, Srikanth Reddy, reengineered the gasping machine I’d made. It’s more streamlined and mobile because of him.