Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems have appeared in earlier drafts:
American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Boston Review, Hunger Mountain, The New Yorker, The Well Review (Ireland), and Zyzzyva.
All the “hour” poems first appeared as a chapbook titled 24 Hours. This chapbook was first printed in Paris, France, in 2014, by Onestar Press and then in the United States later that same year by Poor Claudia.
Both “White Power” and “For Ian Sullivan Upon Joining the Eastside White Pride” first appeared in a chapbook titled Something About a Black Scarf published by Azul Editions in 2008.
I am also grateful for the sustaining support of both the Guggenheim and Civitella Ranieri Foundations, without which a lot of these poems wouldn’t have been written.
I am honored to have had the support of amazing friends including Carl Adamshick, Kazim Ali, Elizabeth Austin, Samiya Bashir, Sean Aaron Bowers, Ernie Casciato, Trinie Dalton, Jason Dodge, Carolyn Forché, Jessica Grindell, Major Jackson, Thomas Lauderdale, Dorianne Laux, Matthew Lippman, Michael McGriff, Joseph Millar, Jay Nebel, D. A. Powell, Geoff Rickly, Christine Roland, Mary Ruefle, Ed Skoog, Mark Waldron, Ahren Warner, C. K. Williams, Kevin Young, The Greater Trumps.
Thanks to the wonderful Bill Clegg.
Deep gratitude is owed to Jill Bialosky for her continued faith, insight, and care.
Thank you to Drew Elizabeth Weitman for her patience and guidance.
This book would not be what it is without the suggestions and big vision of my brother Michael Dickman.
It would have been impossible to have completed this book without the love, help, critical eye, and life shared with Julia Tillinghast.
Love and honor to my little sister Elizabeth Dickman.
Thanks to all the different formations of my family: from the Dickmans to Tillinghasts to Vanhandles to Huddlestons to Castelluccis to Nobles.
And with special praise to my mother, Wendy Dickman.