The Book of a Hundred Hands

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The author would like to thank the editors and staffs of the following journals for their generous support in publishing these poems, in some cases, in earlier versions and/or under altered or different titles. Bellingham Review: “The Hand as Origami” Chicago Review: “The Hand Sculpted,” “The Hand Sketched” Colorado Review: “Traveling,” “The Hand as Anchor,” “Sigh” Columbia Poetry Review: “Intro to the Palmar View,” “Fingers 1,” “Fingers 2” Conjunctions: “The History of the Hand,” “The Prehistory of the Hand,” “The Hand Thinks,” “The Hand Defined: 1,” “Grasp,” “Fan,” “Hold” Conundrum: “Chirologia,” “Case Histories” Facture 4: “The Hand Etched in Glass,” “The Mechanics of the Hand,” “The Hand as Window” Fourteen Hills: “Fingertips,” “The Hand: Other Arches” Harvard Review: “The Hands’ Testament,” “The Hand as Historical” The Iowa Review: “Shadow Puppets” No: “Knuckles,” “The Thumb, in Sum” Now Culture: “The Hand as Ideogram,” “The Hand as Lamp,” QSQ: “The Palmar View” Shiny: “The Hand as Mansion,” “The Hand as Stair” Ur-Vox: “Marc Chagall,” “Marcel Duchamp,” “Rembrandt van Rijn,” “Norman Bluhm and Frank O’Hara” Verse: “The Hands Testify,” “The Hand Painted In” Volt: “The Hand in Fresco,” “Juggle” Word/For Word: “The Hand That Caresses,” “The Hand as Harbor” I would also like to thank a+bend Press, which published an earlier version of section four as a chapbook titled And Hand. The title and much of the anatomical information in section five comes from The Book of a Hundred Hands by George B. Bridgman (Dover, 1971). The Hand by Frank R. Wilson (Vintage, 1998) was also extremely helpful as well as simply fascinating, and supplied the quotation that opens the poem “Case Histories.” The seventeenth-century references were found in Imagining Language, edited by Steve McCaffery and Jed Rasula (MIT Press, 1998), and the italicized line in “The Hand That Caresses” is taken from Alphonso Lingis’s The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (Indiana University Press, 1994). And thanks to Jena Osman for showing me A Manual of Gesture by Albert M. Bacon, 1879, on which section eight is based. Warm thanks to Susan Gevirtz for showing it to me and saying, “You should write a book about it.” If you do know that here is one hand, we’ll grant you all the rest. —Wittgenstein, On Certainty ...