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Controversies,” “Studies in Neuroscience: The Perpetual Moment,” and “Filming the Doomsday Clock” (published as “Doktor Strangelove”); WQS: Women’s Cultural Studies : “This Bell Like a Bee Striking”; The Yale Review : “A Room in Cleopatra’s Palace.”
    “The Earthquake She Slept Through,” “You Know,” and “Costumes Exchanging Glances” appeared on Poem-A-Day , an online publication of the Academy of American Poets. “Under the Influence of Ideals” was reprinted in American Poet Fall/Winter 2013.
    Many thanks to Aníbal Cristobo, publisher and translator, and Patricio Grinberg, translator, of El Claroscuro del Pinguino: Antología Poética Bilingüe (kriller71ediciones, 2013), and to Luna Miguel, for the introduction. Some of these poems were included in that book. Thanks to Mariagiorgia Ulbar for translating some of these poems into Italian, and to Annette Kühn for translating some into German.
    Thanks also to Hand Held Editions (and Poetry Editors Tom Hummel and Brett Fletcher Lauer) for printing the six poems in the series titled Let’s Say Yes as a chapbook.
    Thanks to Andrew Ridker for including “The Storm We Call Progress” in Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics (Black Ocean, 2014).
    Forever-thanks to family and to friends, especially to Mark Bibbins, Timothy Donnelly, Kathleen Finneran, Jennifer Kronovet, Lynn Melnick, Marjorie Perloff, David Schuman, and Mónica de la Torre. More thanks to Bill Clegg, and to Jeff Shotts and everyone at Graywolf Press who helped these poems become a book. Thanks also to Yuki Tanaka for locating Daisuke Ito, and to Daisuke Ito for permission to use the cover image.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of six previous poetry collections, including Elegy , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She has also published an acclaimed new translation of Dante’s Inferno. Bang has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She is a professor of English and teaches in the creative writing program at Washington University in Saint Louis.

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