The Language of Inquiry

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PERMISSIONS “Preface to Writing Is an Aid to Memory” was first published in Writing Is an Aid to Memory (Berkeley: The Figures, 1978); it appears here with the kind permission of Geoffrey Young and of Douglas Messerli, who published a new edition of the work after the first had gone out of print (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996). “If Written Is Writing” appeared in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 1, no. 3 ( June 1978) and was reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, ed. Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984); it is published here with permission from the editors and the publisher. “Language and ‘Paradise’” was initially published in Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Its Modernist Sources, no. 6 (Fall 1985), edited by Roy Miki, and it appears here with the permission of the editor of that journal (retitled West Coast Line). “Two Stein Talks” was first published in the late Lee Hickman’s Temblor 3 (Spring 1986). The essay was reprinted in Revista Canaria de Estudos Ingleses 18 (April 1989), ed. Manuel Brito, and by Janet Rodney in Two Stein Talks (Santa Fe, N.M.: Weaselsleeves Press, 1995). Permission to reprint “Line” is granted by Charles Bernstein and 421 Bruce Andrews, editors of “L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Lines,” in The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Robert Frank and Henry Sayre (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988) and by the publisher. “Comments for Manuel Brito” was included in A Suite of Poetic Voices: Interviews with Contemporary American Poets, ed. Manuel Brito (Santa Brigida, Spain: Kadle Books, 1992), and it is reprinted here with permission . “The Quest for Knowledge in the Western Poem” first appeared in Disembodied Poetics, ed. Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1995), and it is reprinted here with permission from the editors and the publisher. “Three Lives,” which is scheduled to be published as the Introduction to the forthcoming Green Integer edition of Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, appears here with the permission of Douglas Messerli; Green Integer © 2000. Permission to include “Forms in Alterity: On Translation” is granted by the Nobel Foundation, publishers of the Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 110: Translation of Poetry and Poetic Prose, ed. Sture Allén (Singapore : World Scientific, 1999). Permission to quote passages of poetry by Charles Bernstein, Kit Robinson, and Ilya Kutik is granted by the authors . Further permission is granted by Douglas Messerli, publisher of Charles Bernstein’s The Nude Formalism (Los Angeles: 20 Pages, 1989). and by James Sherry, publisher of Kit Robinson’s Ice Cubes (New York: Roof Books, 1987). “Reason” first appeared in Shark 1(1998); it is published here with the permission of the editors, Emilie Clark and Lytle Shaw. “A Common Sense,” which (under the title “Happily”) will appear as part of the Proceedings of the Conference on “Gertrude Stein at the Millennium ,” appears here with the permission of Steven Meyer, organizer of the conference and editor of the proceedings. “Happily” was published as a small book (Sausalito: Post-Apollo Press, 2000); its publication here is possible thanks to the permission of Simone Fattal. 422 / Acknowledgment of Permissions ...