Acknowledgements
by Willy Smart and Brandon Wilner
Acknowledgements is an attempt to work from personal gratitude toward more general expression. Employing a constraint in which the letters in loved ones' names serve as guide marks in the composition of aphorisms, the seeming truths generated encompass a wide range of topics including fashion, sexuality, politics, food, botanical observation, and more. The strictures determining this unlikely system of thought have provided a conflation of two voices, one capable of producing reflections that do not necessarily correspond to what either author thinks on their own (and a book that is indistinguishable from its acknowledgements section).
