Parts of this book have appeared, often in a different form, in these magazines:
Acreage, The Adroit Journal, The American Poetry Review, Burnside Review, Cerise Press, Critical Quarterly, Cut Off Places, Dark Sky Magazine, Filter, Forklift Ohio, Gather Kindling, Gulf Coast, Hoarse, Jai-Alai Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Narrative, The New Guard, New Orleans Review, PageBoy Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Printer’s Devil Review, Sixth Finch, Sonora Review, and Tin House.
“On river road” appeared, as “Trotline,” in the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthology The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing, edited by Henry Hughes.
Thanks to my father, my brothers, and my family-in-law.
Thank you Carolyn Hembree, David McAleavey, David Roderick, Faye Moskowitz, Gregory Pardlo, Heather Blasch, Jane Shore, James Hoch, Kary Wayson, Kevin Craft, Malachi Black, Matthew Dickman, Michael Dickman, Rebecca Hoogs, Rich Smith, and Yusef Komunyakaa for general assistance and/or reading these poems in process.
Support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Idyllwild Arts Foundation, the Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington Fellowship at George Washington University, and Richard Hugo House gave me time, community, and encouragement to write this book. Thank you to the staff and supporters of Copper Canyon Press, particularly Joseph Bednarik, Michael Wiegers, and Tonaya Thompson.