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on the island and the water that bright,
finding day.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Cynthia Good and Barbara Berson at Penguin Canada, for proposing this collection and following it through with thoughtful attentiveness. George Amabile, my editor, for careful reading and lucid response. I am grateful to all three of them.
The Dedication at the beginning of this book is a wholly inadequate reflection of the lifelong role Andy Patton has played in my writing. Equally inadequate are my ongoing attempts to record and acknowledge what my wife, Laura, does to sustain my work.