“Sonnets to Orpheus Part Two, XXIX” from In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus (Riverhead Books, 2005); reproduced with permission of translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.
First and essential, thank you to Leigh Nash for publishing Swimmers in Winter, to Bryan Ibeas for editing the book, and to Megan Fildes, Andrew Faulkner, and Julie Wilson at Invisible Publishing.
I’m grateful to writers Emily Schultz and Thea Lim for being the first readers of the book when it was finished.
I appreciate the generosity of Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy for giving me permission to include their translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, 29.
In addition, I acknowledge the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council.
Many thanks to Carleton Wilson for publishing my chapbook with Junction Books in which an earlier version of the story “Flood Lands” appeared, and to the co-founders of Joyland Magazine, Emily Schultz (again) and Brian Joseph Davis, for publishing an earlier version of the story “Swimmers in Winter” when I was starting out.
Finally, thank you to each friend along the way and to the ones who’ve seen me through.