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NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to Susan Holbrook, Leigh Nash, Alana Wilcox, Jeramy Dodds, Evan Munday
and everyone at Coach House Books. Thanks to Bryan Gee for collaborating on the
cover design. Love to Bryan, Zephyr, Silas and Clea. Thanks to Gary
Barwin/Moribund Facekvetch and John Barlow for making cameo appearances.

This work was composed between 2008 and 2013. An earlier draft of
‘Threshold’ was included in
New American Poetry
. ‘Banished’
appeared in
Event
. Younger versions of ‘Enough’ and ‘We’ are
online at ditch.ca. Some of the texts in the ‘Weapon’ series appeared in
TOK
. Thank you to the editors.
‘Play’ is composed of real time.

Thanks for essential funding to the George Woodcock Fund for Writers (Writers’ Trust); to the Ontario Arts Council; to the Canada Council for the Arts; and to
the Chalmers Foundation for a generous fellowship in 2012–2013. Appreciation to Massey College, Toronto, for a writing retreat space in Spring
2012. Thanks to guides and hosts during research travels in England and Greece in
Fall 2012. Ongoing thanks to family for additional financial assistance.

Sincere thanks and affection to the many: numerous individuals for stimulation
and community over the writing period; friends and mentors; to Mary Jane
Christakos and my brothers and sister; students I have worked with over these
years; dear companions virtual and vital; longstanding participants in
Influency Salon whose generous engagements with both the course and the online
magazine made manifest and shareable its success; and many among my near and
nearer multitudes for ideas, alphabets, meanderings and provocations.

GRATITUDE

ADEGIRTTU

EDUTITARG

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MARGARET CHRISTAKOS
is a worker in the field of letters. She has published eight previous
collections of poetry and a novel. As well as writing and teaching part-time,
she designed and facilitated Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon from 2006 to 2012, and edits with influencysalon.ca. Born and raised in Sudbury, she and her
family live in Toronto.

Books by Margaret Christakos

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What Stirs

Sooner

Excessive Love Prostheses

Charisma

Wipe Under A Love

The Moment Coming

Other Words for Grace

Not Egypt

This ePUB edition produced at the Coach House on bpNichol Lane.
Typeset in Roos and Verdana and printed at the old Coach House on bpNichol Lane
in Toronto, Ontario, on Zephyr Antique Laid paper, which was manufactured,
acid-free, in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, from second-growth forests. This book was printed with
vegetable-based ink on a 1965 Heidelberg
KORD
offset litho press. Its pages were folded on a Baumfolder, gathered by hand,
bound on a Sulby Auto-Minabinda and trimmed on a Polar single-knife cutter.

Edited for the press by Susan Holbrook
Designed by Leigh Nash and Margaret Christakos
Photo by Clea Christakos-Gee
Cover design by Bryan Gee and Margaret Christakos

Upper front cover images: graffiti from the Plaka in Athens, and the W building
seen at night in London, U.K., photos by the author.

Lower front cover image is from a Wikimedia Commons Google search result on the
term ‘see saw’. Grateful for permission granted to reproduce the image through Creative
Commons licensing. Photographer: Mohylek.

Back cover image: Obtained by searching ‘green threshold,’ the figure is a tiling of neuroscans from tests done to show brain activity
patterns when subjects were shown images they found beautiful and ugly.

Online photographs of Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Caitlin Fisher and the author's
hand are reproduced with permission.