Rail

lecturer at Stanford University.

lives in San Francisco

former Wallace Stegner Fellow,

Narrative Magazine and his poetry film, Riding the Highline, has screened at film festivals across the country.

has appeared in Ploughshares, Best New Poets, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, and The Missouri Review, which awarded him the 2013 Editor’s Prize

and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This book is dedicated to my parents, Morris Wee and Kristine Carlson, and my dear brothers, Anders and Olaf. I couldn’t have written these words without you.

and everyone at BOA Editions for your encouragement and anagogical vision.

for your generous mentorship and support.

Thank you to the institutions that provided financial support during the completion of this book: the MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Creative Writing Program, The Missouri Review, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fund, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program.