by Paige Lewis
Poetry: “You Can Take Off Your Sweater, I’ve Made Today Warm”
Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day: “When I Tell My Beloved I Miss the Sun,”
Redivider: “On Distance,” “My Dear Wolfish Dreamboat, Stand Still”
The Shallow Ends: “The Foxes Are Back”
Sixth Finch: “The Moment I Saw a Pelican Devour”
Sugar House Review: “Space Struck”
TriQuarterly: “Last Night I Dreamed I Made Myself”
Waxwing: “Where I’m From, Every House Is a House with an Obstructed View,” “Golden Record”
Oceans of gratitude to Hanif Abdurraqib, Eloisa Amezcua, Madiha Jamil Baksh, Ruth Baumann, Chase Berggrun, Paige Blair, Kelly Butler, Damian Caudill, Sumita Chakraborty, Marianne Chan, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Heather Christle, Tiana Clark, Eduardo C. Corral, Christopher DeWeese, Andrew Epstein, Kat Finch, Joseph Gordon, Barbara Hamby, Jay Hopler, Heather Hughes, Sara Eliza Johnson, James Kimbrell, David Kirby, Zach Linge, Carly Joy Miller, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Dustin Pearson, Katherine Riegel, Jayme Ringleb, Don Share, Nomi Stone, Melissa Studdard, John Taylor, Leah Umansky, R. A. Villanueva, and Jane Wong for their guidance, inspiration, and support.
More oceans to the Sarabande team—Sarah Gorham, Kristen Miller, Danika Isdahl, and Joanna Englert—for making this dream book a reality.
And even more oceans to my family—Mary, Raychel, Richard, Patrick, and Stefanie—for everything.
Love and love and love to my husband, favorite poet, and bright particular, Kaveh Akbar.
KAVEH AKBAR
PAIGE LEWIS’s poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. They teach at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College.
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