Mark Levine is the author of Debt, a selection of the National Poetry Series in 1993, and of Enola Gay (UC Press, 2000). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has also written nonfiction for many national magazines.

• Acknowledgments 1 Ontario Quarry Bering Strait Arboretum Grade Three Two Women Document Then 2 Hand Dock Habitat Animal Insect This Day Last Year in Yellowstone National Park Nurse Rent Triangle Remember 3 The Wilds 4 Song Belongings Early Poem Child's Song Night Autumn Refuge Event Song Willow

"Mark Levine's poems meld wit with the profoundest gravity, peculiar narratives with linguistic precision, and hubris with sorrow. Read them." - Susan Wheeler, author of Ledger and Record Palace"