JOSHUA COREY is the author of three other books of poetry, Severance Songs, Fourier Series, and Selah, as well as a novel, Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy. He and G.C. Waldrep edited The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, an anthology of innovative contemporary nature poems. He lives in Evanston, Illinois and is an associate professor of English at Lake Forest College, and co-director of Lake Forest College Press / &NOW Books.