NOTES

“Summer Was Forever” (p. 19): The phrase “croissant factory” is borrowed from Frank O’Hara’s poem “Lines for the Fortune Cookies.”

“If I should die tomorrow, please note that I will miss the particular” (p. 56): The lines “A telegram, a telegram / from overseas . . .” are borrowed from W. H. Auden’s libretto for Benjamin Britten’s operetta Paul Bunyan.