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69 Notes “My Days at Sea”: the penultimate stanza quotes Rudyard Kipling’s Captains Courageous. “Rimbaud’s Ears”: “Je est un autre” is an odd construction that can be translated into English as “I is someone else” or “I is another.” It comes from one of Rimbaud’s “Lettres du Voyant,” written to his teacher, Georges Izambard. “My Genuine Correspondence with Lord Byron”: The Earnest Atheist is a biography of Samuel Butler by Malcolm Muggeridge. The tunnels in the last stanza refer to a nuclear evacuation plan in which legislators were to be secretly transported to The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. “Jazz”: “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” is Charles Mingus’s elegy for Lester Young. “To Percy Bysshe Shelley”: Andre Maurois is the author of Ariel: The Life of Shelley. “Temp”: Shrimp dancing is a custom of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. “Nurse Kiki on WCW”: the William Carlos Williams poem quoted is “Love Song.” Kiki appears (“O ‘Kiki’ / O Miss Margaret Jarvis”) in the poem “Young Love,” in Williams’ Spring and All. Note on the cover photograph: Pictured here is Queenie the dog, who belonged to my older sisters, Mary Kay and Carol. Before I was born, a neighbor shot Queenie for eating, allegedly, a chicken. 70 ...

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