thanks

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OSSIA came out of the people I love, dying. They're dead, I mean. And because poets do, because they miss, my loves became material. Which means I gave them form and gave myself guilt. Violent forms of feelings that are useless.

I failed to include a list of thanks inside the book. Because my lovers are inside it and because I didn't know what to say to my father, and to the lover who left me. Maybe acknowledgments are best when they're spoken to in person so that it may dissipate and renew as all sound is meant to do bound as we are by physics. As for the metaphysics, here is the interspace. A horror and a dissipating form of memory. All sound.

Still, I give my thanks. To my loves, lovers, and friends. 

My mother 원유현. I speak your name because you are not here, but elsewhere, finally free to live your own life as your own material. Richard Howard, because you were in my life even if I didn't always show it even as I ran away you were always there. 

To my friends, and teachers in jumbled timeline: Matthew Schneier, Patricia Kim, Jiminie Ha, Hamed Sinno, Emily Lee Luan, Maia Ruth Lee, Ian U. Lockaby, Asa Drake, Eric Burg, Chris Garrecht-Williams, Anwen Crawford, Samantha Zighelboim, Ricardo Maldonado, Emily Skillings, Timothy Donnelly, Lucie Brock-Broido, Josh Bell, Marie Howe, Esther Lin, David Kirby, Josh Wizman, Ricardo Rivera, Chris Morten, Thomas Lax, Jennifer Nelson, James Kimbrell, Rebecca Hazelton, Mark Stafford, Erin Belieu, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Óscar Moisés Díaz, Reuben Gelley Neuman, Paisley Rekdal, Victoria Chang, Jay Gao, Rachel Mannheimer, Zoë Hitzig, Bennet Bergman, Kyle Dacuyan, David Velasco, Isabel Boutiette, Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, Juan Medina, Megan Pinto, Paul Cunningham, Ariel Yelen, Evan Gill Smith, Sydney Jin Choi,  Alison Zheng, Nicole W. Lee, Carolina Hotchandani, Shelby Handler, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, Sara Mae Henke, Rhoni Blankenhorn, Azad Sharma, Weiji Wang, Laura Cresté, Davide Balula, Julia Trotta, Ashleigh Gill. My brain is tired, I will keep adding your names. How do I know so many people.

To the Korean and Korean-American writers and translators who made the ground more visible: Jack Jung, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Soje, Alexander Chee, Stine An. I am overwhelmed trying to name every translator beyond the Korean language please bear with me.  

To the journals for publishing me, thank you: The Canary, mercury firs, Action Fokus, Pleiades, Viseu, Tilted House. I am sure I am forgetting but I will keep adding your names.

Thank you. May this extend infinitely until I disperse.