NOTES

ONE HALF (RAIN) AND ONE WHOLE (SWEDEN) READYMADE PLUS AN EPILOGUE: “Sweden” is from the Metro of December 28, 1999.

SHAKESPEARE, NAUSEATING or REGARDING OUR FATHER, DETAILS: the quotes are from Charles Darwin’s autobiography and other writings.

GRADUATION PROJECT: the lines from Celan’s “Death Fugue” are in Michael Hamburger’s translation.

DRUNK, HE GOES DOWN ON HIS KNEES: the Ovid quote is from David Raeburn’s translation.

ORCHIDS: the quote that starts with “Nature” is derived from Longinus’s On the Sublime, in the classic translation by William Rhys Roberts, and has been modified here to better match the Dutch poem. The quote that starts with “the umbilical cord” (changed here to present tense) is from Adam Haslett’s You Are Not a Stranger Here.