Whirlwind

Notes

75 Notes The book epigraph is from Franz Kafka’s The Zürau Aphorisms, trans. by Michael Hofmann, intro. by Roberto Calasso (Schocken Books, 2006). “Ode to Nitrous Oxide”: the epigraph is from Edward Rothstein, “A MindAltering Drug Altered a Culture as Well,” The new york times, May 5, 2008. “Unpairing: Proofreading My Marriage”: “ketuba” is the Jewish marriage contract; “get” is the religious divorce document. “First Words, Last Words”: the epigraph is from Raymond P. Scheindlin’s translation of The Book of Job (Norton, 1998), 6:26, p. 67. “The Necklace”: the epigraph is from Marianne Moore’s poem “Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting” and “what keeps life . . .” is from “Emeralds,” The Poems of Marianne Moore, ed. Grace Schulman (Viking, 2003), pp. 272 and 35. “To a Jumbo Sea Worm at the Aquarium in Cornwall”: the epigraph is from “Barry the giant sea worm discovered by aquarium staff after mysterious attacks on coral reef,” The Daily Mail Online, March 31, 2009. “Char’d Endings”: a cento composed of the last lines of poems by René Char, Selected Poems, trans. by Mary Ann Caws and Tina Jolas (New Directions , 1992). happiness Is Luck: the epigraph is from Bob Dylan’s song “Something There Is About You,” Copyright © 1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music. 76 notes “Phonography”: the line is from Jefferson Airplane’s “Volunteers,” by Paul Kantner and Marty Bailin. Copyright © BMI, 1969. “If Happiness Is Luck” is indebted to Lyn Hejinian’s happily (Post Apollo Press, 2000). “As Ants, in Their Dark Company, Will Touch”: the title is from Dante’s Purgatorio (XXVI. 34-35), trans. Allen Mandelbaum (Bantam, 2004). “Duende” is for Billy, in memory, always. ...