Acknowledgements

Thanks to editors David Bromige and Jack Kimball (The East Village, www.theeastvillage.com), Stephen Cain, Suzanne Zelazo and Natalee Caple (Queen Street Quarterly), Emily Cargan and Fred Wah (dANDelion), Kyle Conner and Greg Fuchs (Highwire Yearbook), Jeff Derksen, Peter Jaeger and Scott Pound (Open Letter), the filling Station collective circa 1999, Bob Harrison and Andrew Levy (Crayon), Michael Magee (Combo), Rob Manery (hole), Kathryn McLeod and Douglas Stetar (Motel), Chris and Jenn McCreary (ixnay), Laura Moriarty (non <socrates.berkeley.edu/~moriarty>), and Aaron Vidaver and Robyn Laba and the W collective circa 2000, who all published some of these poems. Thanks also to Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick for ‘So how’s the Dow’ in The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets (Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1994); to derek beaulieu for Curdles, a chapbook (Calgary: housepress, 2001) and ‘Yield’ in Voices: Poems for Karl and Talon (Calgary: housepress, 2001); and to Miles Champion and Sheila Lawson, for ‘Manifester’ in Resolute (London, England: Platform Gallery, 2000). Special thanks to Jeff Derksen, Nicole Markotic, damian lopes, Darren Wershler-Henry and Alana Wilcox. Each of you has made indispensible suggestions for the text in its present form. I’d like to especially thank Darren, who made this book possible. Thanks also to Dale McFarland at Frith Street Gallery, London, England, and to Cornelia Parker, for a photo of one of her installations, ‘Matter and What It Means’ (the installation consists of coins that have been run over by a train, suspended over a shadow made of dirty money. 1989. Photographed by Edward Woodman).

copyright © Louis Cabri, 2001
cover image copyright © Cornelia Parker

Copy edited and proofread by Alana Wilcox
Designed by damian lopes
Cover design by Darren Wershler-Henry
Cover art by Cornelia Parker

ISBN 1-55245-948-9
Coach House Books, 2002