Early versions of some of these poems and miniatures have appeared in Grain, Queen Street Quarterly, OFF THE SHELF, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, THIS, Gaspereau Review, Zarez, PRISM international and in the chapbook poem(s) on the stairs, published by above/ground press.
Thanks to my family and friends, especially my sweet husband David Derry, for caring about poetry and for being the first to lay eyes on many of these poems.
Jet and John, for their love and help with Sadie Glenn.
Steve Bacic, for attending readings rain or shine.
Thanks, also, to the Banff Centre for the Arts and Wired Writing Studio, the Ontario Media Development Corporation, the Eastend Arts Council (Saskatchewan), the Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, for supporting this project at various stages of its development.
Special thanks to Coach House Books and Alana Wilcox for excellent editorial advice, support and new friendship.
Finally, I would like to thank Annabel Lyon and her new baby, and Patrick Friesen for being Patrick Friesen.
Typeset in Centaur and printed and bound at the Coach House on bpNichol Lane, 2005.
Edited and designed by Alana Wilcox
Cover painting by Brad Harley
Cover design by Rick/Simon
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