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Notes

81 notes Page 1. John Baptiste (translator), “Wakdjunkaga,” in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notebooks, Freeman #3897 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, ca. 1912) Winnebago V, #7: 567–568. Used with permission of the copyright holder, American Philosophical Society. Page 10. “Stalker” references the film Stalker, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, Mosfilm, 1979. Page 11. “Passport” is for David Abram. Page 12. “The Inquisitor” as well as “Song of Ticks” and “The Trouble with You” follow John Ashbery’s variation on the pantoum, which appeared in his book Some Trees. Page 19. John Berryman, “Dream Song 352,” The Dream Songs (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969), 374. Used with permission of the copyright holder, Kate Donahue. Page 28. “Annual” is formally inspired by Native American Calendar texts in Leona Cope, “North American Calendar Lists,” Io/6, Ethnoastronomy Issue (Summer 1969): 166–167. Page 30. Robert Bringhurst, “Pythagoras,” Selected Poems (London: Jonathan Cape, 2010), 30. Used with permission of the copyright holder, Robert Bringhurst. Page 45. Tomas Tranströmer, “Vermeer,” Tomas Tranströmer: Selected Poems 1954­–1986, ed. Robert Hass (New York: The Ecco Press, 1987), 187. Used with permission of the translator and copyright holder, Samuel Charters. Page 48. “Fable” was written for a reading accompanying an exhibition featuring the work of Esther Traugot at the Chandra Cerrito Contemporary gallery in Oakland, California, on July 14, 2012. Page 51. “Living for Others” was Philip Larkin’s working title for his collection High Windows. 82 Page 53. “The Hare” references an “Action” by Joseph Beuys titled “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare,” undertaken in Düsseldorf on November 26, 1965 at Galerie Schmela. Page 58. The oil spill is the 2007 Cosco Busan spill in San Francisco Bay. The poem is for Monte Merrick. Page 62. “Diary” is formally informed by The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition, ed. Joan Acocella (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). Page 65. “Golden Book” is a found poem. The Golden Book, ed. Reverend Newton Marshall Hall and Reverend Irving Francis Wood (Springfield: 1917), 44. Page 67. Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America, ed. Carin Kuoni (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990), 87. Used with permission, ©2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG BildKunst , Bonn. Pages 69–76. Quotations “extended” in “Utopia Parkway” are from Joseph Cornell’s Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files, ed. Mary Ann Caws (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1993). ...