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Acknowledgements

Many of the poems in this collection have appeared, often in earlier versions, in the following magazines and anthologies: Ariel, Border Crossings, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CV2, Cross-Canada Writers Quarterly, Dalhousie Review, Dandelion, diverge, Fiddlehead, Grain, League of Canadian Poets’ Museletter, NeWest Review, Poetry Canada Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prairie Fire, Queen’s Quarterly, Textual Studies in Canada, This Magazine, Towards 2000 (Fifth House Publishers), Vallum, Vintage 1991 (Sono Nis Press), and Windsor Review.

Some poems were broadcast on the CBC programs Ambience and Gallery.

“The Persistent Suitor” won the Stephen Leacock Poetry Award from the Orillia International Poetry Festival in 1996. “On the Beach” won second prize in the 1997 Saltwater Poetry Contest. “Dec. 6, Montreal” won second prize in the League of Canadian Poets’ 1991 National Poetry Contest.

My thanks to the editors, producers, and judges.

Thanks also to the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’s colony committee, which operates writers and artists colonies at Emma Lake and St. Peter’s Abbey, Muenster, Saskatchewan, where many of these poems were written.

And especial thanks to Christine Lynn for Red Hue Moon, the painting on the cover.

And more thanks to George Amabile, whose lines “the purity of absence/kindles appetites that hiss/and fuse. One/last beginning,” from his poem “Tangents and Vectors,” are used, with permission, as an epigraph for my poem “Purity of Absence.” I heard George read his poem at Heaven bookshop in Winnipeg in spring 1996 and, struck by that phrase “the purity of absence,” immediately began my poem on the back of a napkin.