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The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far

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by Quintan Ana Wikswo


  Thank you to the many institutions that provided mooring, anchorage, and rat-wrangling during this voyage: Yaddo, Creative Capital, Colleen Keegan of the Theo Westenberger Estate, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Bin Ramke at Denver Quarterly, Rob Spillman at Tin House, the Puffin Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Byrdcliffe Colony, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Ebenböckhaus and Thomas Linsmeier, the Millay Colony, Ucross Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, Montalvo Arts Center, Schloss Pluschow, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Beyond Baroque, Zachary Levine of the Yeshiva University Museum, and Joanne Jacobson and Joy Ladin of Yeshiva University.

  And to the sites themselves, a very special gratitude to Karma Triyana Dharmachakra; Floyd Bennett Field, Hangar B, and the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project (HARP); Vittorio Palmieri at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Large Hadron Collider; and Keivan G. Stassun, the Apache Point Observatory, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. And my love to the Baltic, the Curonian Spit, the Rossitten Bird Observatory, the Cormorants Colony of , and the Nerija National Park of Lithuania.

  FUNDER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Coffee House Press is an independent, nonprofit literary publisher. All of our books, including the one in your hands, are made possible through the generous support of grants and donations from corporate giving programs, state and federal support, family foundations, and the many individuals that believe in the transformational power of literature.

  We receive major operating support from Amazon, the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and Target. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Our publishing program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. Support for this title was received through special project support from a Jerome Foundation 50th Anniversary Grant.

  Coffee House Press receives additional support from many anonymous donors; the Alexander Family Fund; the Archer Bondarenko Munificence Fund; the Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation; the David & Mary Anderson Family Foundation; the Patrick & Aimee Butler Family Foundation; the Buuck Family Foundation; the Carolyn Foundation; Dorsey & Whitney Foundation; Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.; the Lenfestey Family Foundation; the Mead Witter Foundation; the Schwab Charitable Fund; Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.; Penguin Group; the Private Client Reserve of US Bank; VSA Minnesota for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council; the Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation; the Wells Fargo Foundation of Minnesota; and the Woessner Freeman Family Foundation.

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  Allan Kornblum, 1949-2014

  Vision is about looking at the world and seeing not what it is, but what it could be. Allan Kornblum’s vision and leadership created Coffee House Press. To celebrate his legacy, every book we publish in 2015 will be in his memory.

  COLOPHON

  The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far was designed at Coffee House Press, in the historic Grain Belt Brewery’s Bottling House near downtown Minneapolis. The text is set in Bembo with Brandon Grotesque titles.

 

 

 


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