The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
—YASUNARI KAWABATA
Thank you to my family, Ethan Rutherford, Nayon Cho, Russell Perreault, Don Lee, Michael Collier, Ann Patchett, Joan Silber, Kate Walbert, Hannah Tinti, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Lauren Groff, Caroline Casey, Jill Meyers, The National Book Foundation, The Bennington Writing Seminars, Sven Birkerts, Victoria Clausi, Dawn Dayton, Brian Morton, Amy Hempel, my dear Bret Anthony Johnston, Simon & Schuster, Jonathan Karp, Richard Rhorer, Wendy Sheanin, Andrea DeWerd, Tracey Guest, Jessica Zimmerman, Rebecca Marsh, Jackie Seow, Christopher Lin, Irene Kheradi, Gina DiMascia, Joy O’Meara, Loretta Denner, Jane Elias, Emily Graff, WME, Laura Bonner, Shaun Dolan.
To Marysue (and Thea), for the leap.
And to Bill, always, for the embrace.