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Acknowledgments Enormous thanks to Mark Doty, the National Poetry Series, and everyone at the University of Illinois Press for making this book possible, with unfathomable gratitude to the following private sponsors of this book, whose extraordinary contributions made possible the inclusion of the Flashanimation CD of the Mandrake Vehicles: Nancy and Lloyd M. Aiello, M.D., Colleen Hovey and Christopher Bator, Harry and Nicholas Bator, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Evans, Christine Grant, Porter Hall, David Hricik, Sirkku Konttinen and Harri Kytömaa, T. F. Richardson, David Ritchie, Ted Robinson, and Miranda Pratt and D. Christopher Wells. For their indispensable assistance in the production of the Mandrake Vehicles, further gratitude to Jon Sakata, Phillip Pond, and Flash-animator extraordinaire Betsy Stone Mazzoleni. Grateful thanks to the editors of the following publications in which poems from this book Ārst appeared: Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art, Columbia Poetry Review, Conduit, Copper Nickel, Dragonfire, Drunken Boat, Forklift, Ohio, Guernica, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N Poetry Journal, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, jubilat, La Petite Zine, LIT Magazine, past simple, Puella Mea, Seneca Review, and three candles journal. Special thanks to William Waltz and Conduit for Ārst publishing the full Flash-animation of the Mandrake Vehicles, and to Jake Adam York and Copper Nickel for creating a chapbook of “Or Portals to Another World.” Thanks to the Poetry Society of America and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for acknowledgment and inspiration. Thank you to the many friends, colleagues, and teachers past and present who have contributed their steadfast enthusiasm and support for my projects during the writing of this manuscript. In addition to those people already mentioned above, and the many, many others whose kindnesses have contributed to my life and to this book, I would like to thank in particular Thomas Bross, Fred Chappell, Michael Collier, Jay DeWire, Stephen Drury, Daniel Epstein, Richard Greene, Carrie Iverson, Major Jackson, Myna Jayne Joseph, Martin Lammon, Sabrina Orah Mark, Lisa Mezzacappa, Sara Mueske, Luba Poliak, Elaine Rombola, Aleyson Scopel, Joshua Wolf Shenk, Russell Sherman, Donna Stonecipher, Mimi Tung, Brian Waniewski, Patricia Zander and, not least, Squeakers Tyrell. Thank you to my family for their love and generosity, especially Robin Welte, Art Murray, Kelly and Colette Buchanan, and Pete and Cindy Woodward. Beyond the ability of words to capture gratitude, thank you to Jon Woodward. ...