Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my editor, Jeff Seroy—always perceptive, flexible, and patient—and his colleagues at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, for the great efforts they have made to help me to improve this translation and to make the Introduction more accessible. I also wish to thank Luis Gonzalez-Reimann, Anna Dallapiccola, Robert Moses and Eddie Stern, Stephanie Rutt, my students at Montserrat College of Art, and my friends at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, New Hampshire, all of whom have offered support and encouragement in so many ways. And last but not least, special thanks to Susan Prince Thompson, my best critic and my muse.