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  He has been a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas, and a recipient of a May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in San Francisco.

  Books by Matthew Zapruder

  Come On All You Ghosts

  The Pajamaist

  American Linden

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  Acknowledgments

  I would like to thank the editors of the following publications, in which poems in this book (some in different forms) first appeared: Agriculture Reader, Article, The Awl, Bat City Review, The Believer, Black Clock, Boston Review, Coconut, Columbia Poetry Review, CUNY GC Advocate, Dædalus, Electronic Poetry Review, Forklift Ohio, Fourteen Hills, Free Inquiry, jubilat, The Laurel Review, Lit Mob, Maggy, Mary, The Massachusetts Review, Narrative, The New York Quarterly, notnostrums, Order and Decorum, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Flash, A Public Space, Puppy-flowers, Slate, Tin House, Volt, Zyzzyva.

  “Never to Return” was reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2009, edited by David Lehman and David Wagoner. “Sad News” appeared in Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker.

  Several of the poems in this book first appeared in For You in Full Bloom, a limited-edition book from Pilot Books containing reproduc- tions of paintings by Chris Uphues. Special thanks to Chris for his paintings and his titles, as well as to Betsy Wheeler, Meghan Dewar, and Pilot Books. Thanks as well to Cindy Abramson for the use of her title “Automated Regret Machine.”

  I would also like to thank the following people and institutions, whose support and help were invaluable to me as I wrote these poems: Lannan Foundation; the James Merrill House and Stonington Village Improvement Association; the Poetry Society of America; the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences; Christian Lux, Ron Winkler, Martina Hoffmann, and Luxbooks; Primož Čučnik, Ana Pepelnik, and LUD Šerpa; Michael, Joseph, Jess, and everyone at Copper Canyon.

  Copyright 2010 by Matthew Zapruder

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  Cover art by Marina Hoffman

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