Extra long dedicationFor all my good teachers, especially:
Fran Schroeder,
fourth grade, Millikin Elementary, Santa Clara, California,
for whom I wrote my first poems.
Ida Huber,
tenth-grade English, Mesa High School, Arizona,
who believed in my future more than I did.
Charles Whitman,
playwriting, Brigham Young University,
who made my scripts look better than they deserved.
Norman Council,
literature, University of Utah,
for Spenser and Milton, alive.
Edward Vasta,
literature, University of Notre Dame,
for Chaucer and for friendship.
And always Fran?ois.