The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements Owen Percy: Thanks first and foremost to Tom Wayman for his poems, and for his patience, optimism, hospitality, guidance, and friendship. Thanks also to WLUP for their hard work and their dedication to poetry in this country. A debt of gratitude is also owed to Howard White, Billy Collins, and Fred Wah for their generosity and enthusiasm. This volume would not have come to fruition without the love and guidance of Robyn Read. Tom Wayman: My thanks to the staffs of the publishers who for more than forty years have been hospitable to my poems. I am especially grateful to Howard White of Harbour Publishing. His consistent generosity toward my words over the decades has been a source of both encouragement and inspiration. Thanks as well to Owen Percy for conceiving of this project. I believe the future of Canadian literary studies is in good hands as long as the profession can attract young scholars who like Owen combine practicality, intellect, and a deep-rooted love of imaginative writing. From Waiting for Wayman (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973) Days: Construction Picketing Supermarkets Wayman in Love From For and Against the Moon: Blues, Yells, and Chuckles (Toronto: Macmillan, 1974) The Country of Everyday: Literary Criticism From Money and Rain: Tom Wayman Live! (Toronto: Macmillan, 1975) The Factory Hour The Old Power From Free Time: Industrial Poems (Toronto: Macmillan, 1977) Industrial Music Factory Time 87 From Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980) Garrison Friday Night in Early September at Morris and Sara Wayman’s Farm, Roseneath, Ontario From Counting the Hours: City Poems (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983) White Hand From The Face of Jack Munro (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1986) Silos Paper, Scissors, Stone The Face of Jack Munro From In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1989) A Cursing Poem: This Poem Wants Gordon Shrum to Die The Poet Defective Parts of Speech: Official Errata From Did I Miss Anything? Selected Poems, 1973–1993 (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1993) Did I Miss Anything? From The Astonishing Weight of the Dead (Vancouver: Polestar, 1994) The Man Who Logged the West Ridge From I’ll Be Right Back: New and Selected Poems, 1980–1996 (Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 1997.) For William Stafford (1914–1993) From The Colours of the Forest (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1999) War on a Round Planet From My Father’s Cup (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2002) Cup Epithalamium for a Former Lover 88 / Acknowledgements From High Speed Through Shoaling Water (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2007) Calgary Postmodern 911 From Dirty Snow (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2012) Mt. Gimli Pashtun Air Support Whistle From Winter’s Skin (Fernie, BC: Oolichan, 2013) The White Dogs Minutes Breath Acknowledgements / 89 This page intentionally left blank ...