David Weiss has published four previous collections of poems: The Fourth Part of the World (Ohio State University Press), Gnomon (Wolf at the Door Press), Perfect Crime (Nine Mile Books), Little Mirror (Lynx House Press), and one novel, The Mensch. His essays, translations, and poems have appeared over the years in The Atlantic, Parnassus, The New Yorker, Iowa Review, North American Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares and Hole in the Head Review, among others. He edited Seneca Review for many years and taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.