Thanks to Common Deer Press and Ellie Sipila—I'm so bonkers to be counted among the herd. CDP4LIFE! Thanks to my mentors Sarah Schulman and Rebecca Brown, both of whom retooled my brain and heart, and changed my relationship with writing (and reading) back at Goddard 10,000 years ago. Thanks to my non‐academic mentors Michael Foran and David Harris—both great poets!—for continuing to steer me back to the craft of writing year after year. Jesse Edwards, Tony Salisbury, Ryan Kneeland, George Eadon, Joe Armer—you've all saved me in some way at the exact point that I needed to be saved, and that's the point of lifelong friends. Eternal thanks to my mother, Barbara Lloyd, who introduced me to the written word and to my father, David Miller, who helped me hear the music in everything.
Most of all, I am infinitely thankful to be inside this moment and able to be on this planet at the same time as my wife, Emily Brostek. All of my love and gratitude will always be for Emily, for whom this book is co‐dedicated—she's made everything good in this life possible.