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75 a note on italiCs Some of the italicized lines in Grains of the Voice are taken from the following sources: John Ashbery, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, David Barber, John Blackburn, Dennis DeYoung (of Styx), Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Vernon Duke, Duran Duran, Thomas Jefferson, King James Bible, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, Karl Suessdorf, Scott Walker, and Neil Young. “As Tears” makes reference to the Rolling Stones’ “As Tears Go By”; “They Are Provident Instead” is a phrase taken from Louise Bogan’s “Women.” ...

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