Acknowledgements

With warm thanks to Jay MillAr, Stephen Cain, Sharon Harris, Chris Trevelyan, Susan Holbrook, Kathleen Betts, Nadia Halim, Britta Feyerabend, Mita Banerjee, Stan Skrzeszewski, Alfred Hornung, Neil Hennessey, and John Brooker. Versions of poems in this book have appeared in The Windsor Review, Stride Magazine, White Wall Review, TRY magazine, Abraham Lincoln, and Ditch Poetry. “Eaton’s Effluviad” was the winner of the 2007 Torontoist Poetry Contest. Thank you to Arni Brownstone for the photograph on page 72 (Eaton's Effuviad). I would also like to thank the talented team at Quattro, especially the tireless and always delightful Beatriz Hausner and the talented and eagle-eyed Allan Briesmaster. All wanderings taken with and for Lisa – in advance of our imaginary, imagined golden nugget.

Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, critic, and teacher. His previous books include If Language (BookThug 2005) and The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press 2009). He lives in St. Catharines where he teaches at Brock University. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/betts