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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I could not have written this book without the insight, advice, and friendship of Ben Fama, Ed Halter, Ian Hatcher, Lucy Ives, Kevin Killian, Trisha Low, Jacolby Satterwhite, Tim Terhaar, and Carl Williamson. Most of all, I am grateful for the attention and continuous support of Stephen Motika, who firmly believed in this book before it was ever a book. Some of these pieces first appeared in
the Boston Review, The Destroyer, Epiphany, Fence, The Miami Rail, Out of Order, Pocket Notes,
and
Triple Canopy
. Thanks to Travis Meyer and Stacey Tran at Poor Claudia for publishing a selection of this book as the chapbook
Believers
in Fall 2013. “Prism” was included in
Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics
 (Black Ocean 2014), edited by Andrew Ridker. Lastly, I would be nowhere without the love and support of my mother, father, and sister.

Andrew Durbin co-edits Wonder and lives in New York.

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