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I am grateful to the editors of the following publications, in which the listed poems originally appeared, sometimes in earlier versions:

American Literary Review: “A Shape With Forty Wings”

Asheville Poetry Review: “Earthly Kingdom”

Connotation Press: An Online Artifact: “Choirmaster,” “Conductor’s Prayer,” “Amateur’s Prayer,” “The Old Preacher Prays,” and “Herald”

The Cortland Review: “Please Follow the Instructions”

The Hampden–Sydney Poetry Review: “I Shocked the Hills” and “Lament”

Marginalia: “The Fact”

The Other Journal: “Blood” and “Hedonist’s Prayer”

Poetry East: “Sojourner’s Prayer” and “Weak Devotions”

Ruminate: “Newspaper Photo”

Southern Poetry Review: “Floccinaucinihilipilification”

Sow’s Ear Poetry Review: “Patient’s Prayer”

Verse Libre Quarterly (now defunct): “Wisteria”

“Weak Devotions” also appeared as a reprint on the blog of the National Public Radio radio program Being (http://onbeing.org).

“Blood” also appeared as a reprint in the anthology Remembering the Future: Essays, Interviews, and Poetry at the Intersections of Theology and Culture (Cascade Books, 2009).

“Choirmaster” and “Failure” were broadcast on the radio program The Poet’s Weave on WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana, and the program is archived online at http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/.

Personal Thanks

For their invaluable assistance in revising these poems and this collection, and for their great dedication of time and energy, my enduring gratitude to Keith Flynn, Stephen Haven, Elizabeth Hoover, Maurice Manning, Ashley Anna McHugh, and Chad Prevost. For their guidance and encouragement, I acknowledge my teachers: JoLynn Goffin, Chad Prevost, and Maurice Manning. My love to my parents and siblings, who have always offered support and enthusiasm: my father, Carl Hankins; my mother, Laura Hankins–Rand; my sisters, Janna Wardle and Carly Borders; and my brother, Joey Hankins.

Soli Deo gloria.