Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements Lori Emerson and derek beaulieu would like to thank the following people for their support during the creation of Writing Surfaces: Nelson Ball, Christian Bök, jwcurry, Kit Dobson, Paul Dutton, Charlie Huisken, Marvin Sackner , Steven Ross Smith, Richard Truhlar, Darren Wershler, and Eric Zboya. Our poetic communities and online conversations have inspired and excited us into action. Thank you also to Ellie Nichol and the estate of bpNichol for permission to include bpNichol’s illustrations in this volume. Great appreciation to John Riddell for allowing us the opportunity to cast his work into the context of twenty-first-century poetic conversations. Brian Henderson and Wilfrid Laurier University Press have been excellent to work with and have provided editorial acumen, deadline reinforcement , and all the best kind of support. Thank you. Grateful acknowledgement to the editors of Aya Press, CHEX, Coach House Press, Ganglia, Gesture Press, grOnk, Nightwood Editons, and Underwhich Editions for the original publication of the work in Writing Surfaces. Thank you also to Kristen Beaulieu for patience and breakfast and Ben Robertson for patience and dinner. 1 5 7 ...