Acknowledgments 

 

Earlier versions of some parts of this book appeared previously. I’m extremely grateful to the editors and staff of: EVENT, Maisonneuve, The Wolf (U.K.), Critical Quarterly (U.K.), Boston Review (U.S.), eleveneleven (U.S.), Hazlitt, Lemonhound, Cordite (Aus.).

Excerpts from ‘SIGINT’ appeared as a hand-bound chapbook from NO PRESS, with illustrations by Jonathan Ullyot. Deep thanks to derek beaulieu of NO PRESS.

An excerpt from ‘Perfect Blue Distant Objects’ was included in Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, edited by Andrew Ridker, Black Ocean Press.

 

To Karen Solie, Kevin Connolly, Matthew Tierney, David O’Meara, Susan Holbrook, Jeramy Dodds, Srikanth Reddy, Dan Bejar, Laura Repas and Michael Helm, who all offered valuable readings and talk and camaraderie and intelligence, I’m immensely grateful.

 

Frederic Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic broke a silence, or opened on to one.

 

The Berliner Künstler Programm of the German Academic Exchange Service (daad) in Berlin made a year of study and writing possible in a city I still dream about. Many thanks to everyone at the organization, and to the international and German writers and artists who made the year richer.

 

I acknowledge and thank the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for invaluable assistance during the writing of this book.

 

The brilliant and generous Andrew Zawacki, who served as editor for the press, brought an exquisitely tuned mind and immaculate timing to the final stages. I’m indebted to him.

 

Alana Wilcox at Coach House. Thank you, friend. You are immense.

 

Laura and Samuel. None better to share the days with.