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“The Light,” “Something Like Sleep.”
    Many thanks to D. A. Powell for selecting this book for the National Poetry Series and for his sincere, thoughtful support.
    Thanks to the National Poetry Series and HarperCollins Publishers for the gift of a book. Special thanks to Michael Signorelli at Harper Perennial for his eternal patience and editorial expertise.
    I owe a tremendous debt to all my teachers, especially Maurice Manning, Ross Gay, and Romayne Rubinas Dorsey. Their incredible, generous teaching opened up a world for me.
    Nothing but love to my friends and colleagues at Indiana University.
    Endless thanks to the Fine Arts Work Center; for the time and space; for the sea; for the beautiful people you placed in my life.
    For the love and support, much gratitude to Cave Canem, where many of these poems began.
    I am grateful to the following teachers and friends for commenting on this book or its poems at various stages of development: Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte, Ed Roberson, Maura Stanton, Claudia Rankine, Colleen McElroy, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Jacob Shores-Arguello, Myron Michael Hardy, Douglas Brown, and Cheri Johnson. Thanks to francine harris for allowing me to borrow her title “I remember the scene in that movie.”
    Thanks to William Paine, DeAntae Prince, Chad Anderson, Mike Rowe, and Ashley Rutter for holding me down.
    Thanks to Ryan Teitman.
    Thanks to Raleigh Lee and Kelly Wilson.
    Thanks to Jeff Kass for the spark; to Jason Olsen for the push.
    Above all, thank you to my parents and family. This book is theirs.

Credits
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    MAYBE THE SADDEST THING . Copyright © 2012 by Marcus Wicker. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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    EPub Edition © NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062191021
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