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the Smiths” appeared in 113 Crickets, published by Dymaxicon, summer 2012.
    â€œMy Place” and “Second Grade” appeared in A California Childhood, published by Insight Editions, 2013.
    â€œRiver” appeared in Actors Anonymous, published by Little A/New Harvest, 2013.
    Thank you, Jeff Shotts and everyone at Graywolf, for making this the best book it could be. I have found a home.
    Thank you, Richard Abate, for your guidance and belief.
    I have been blessed with the best poetry teachers alive: Alan Shapiro, Alan Williamson, Ellen Bryant Voigt, James Longenbach, Rick Barot, Heather McHugh, Tony Hoagland, and Frank Bidart. The Warren Wilson writing program is a little bit of writers’ paradise on earth. Thank you to every­one who is a part of it and the three women who made it run while I studied there: Deb Allbery, Amy Grimm, and Alissa Whelan.
    Thank you to my family, my friends, fellow writers, fellow filmmakers, Michael Shannon, and everyone else who people these poems. You are in me, and I consist of you.

Author photograph: Anna Kooris
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    JAMES FRANCO is an actor, director, writer, and visual artist. He is the author of two works of fiction, Palo Alto and Actors Anonymous, and a collage of memoir, snapshots, poems, and artwork, A California Childhood. His poetry has appeared in a chapbook, Strongest of the Litter. Directing Herbert White is Franco’s first full-length book of poetry. His writing has also been published in Esquire , the Huffington Post, McSweeney’s, n+1, Vanity Fair, and the Wall Street Journal. He has received MFAs in fiction from Brooklyn College and Columbia, an MFA in film from New York University, an MFA in art from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.
    Franco’s film appearances include Milk, Pineapple Express, and 127 Hours, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He portrayed Allen Ginsberg in the film Howl, and Hart Crane in The Broken Tower, a film Franco adapted and directed. He has also adapted many poems into films that he has directed, including short films based on “Herbert White” by Frank Bidart, the collection Black Dog, Red Dog by Stephen Dobyns, “The Clerk’s Tale” by Spencer Reece, and the collection Tar by C. K. Williams. Franco has also adapted to film the novels As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.
    He lives in New York and Los Angeles.

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