Red Sugar

Notes

N O T E S “Lip” is for Tamara DiPalma. “Make it Beautiful” is for Bruce Weigl. “To the Well-Meaning” makes use of some lines from The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch. “Red Sugar” makes use of some phrases from A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich. “The Phenomenology of Sex” is dedicated to Judith Vollmer. “When Foucault Entered the Body” is for Aaron Smith. “Cave Music” makes use of some lines from an interview with Jimi Hendrix on The Dick Cavett Show, and from Crosstown Traffic, Charles Shaar Murray, 1998. “Speculator Mine Disaster Butte, Montana, 1917” makes use of lines from a letter by James D. Moore that appears on the Speculator Mine Memorial, Butte Montana. The Granite Mountain–Speculator Mine fire on June 8, 1917, remains the country’s worst hard-rock, metal mining disaster. The memorial was dedicated in 1996, in honor of at least 167 men who perished, and all the miners in the Butte area. “Love Poem w/Strat #2” and “Love Poem w/Strat” make use of lines from “The Stratocaster,” an article by David Fricke, in which he quotes guitarists Jeff Beck and Joe Perry, Rolling Stone 922, May 15, 2003. “After” is for Don. “The Punch” is for Robert T. Beatty, who worked for J& L Steel in Pittsburgh, Steelworkers Local #1272, Southside Works. “Daughter of Blue Lake” is in memory of Charlotte Thoma. “Shower w/notebook” is after a poem by Judith Vollmer, “Self-Portrait with Notebook ” from The Door Open to the Fire. It makes use of a few phrases from the following : Collected Poems by Muriel Rukeyser; Selected Poems by Sylvia Plath; Complete Poems by Anne Sexton; Satan Says by Sharon Olds. 75 BeattyPGS:Layout 1 2/5/08 8:28 PM Page 75 BeattyPGS:Layout 1 2/5/08 8:28 PM Page 76 ...