“Scream (or Never Minding)”: Quotes from Edvard Munch’s journal are from Sue Prideaux’s Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (Yale University Press, 2005).
“My Eagles”: Lewis Thomas quotes are from Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Norton, 1978). Eagle feather use information is from the White Earth Nation web site: www.whiteearth.com
“In the Despoiled and Radiant Now” is a line from Stephen Dunn’s beautiful poem, “A Post-Mortem Guide” in Different Hours (Norton, 2000).
“All the Fierce Tethers”: Christopher White’s lucid illustrations of systems gone awry (in The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Melting Glaciers, St. Martin, 2013) and Ela Harrison’s brilliant midrash informed this essay, as did Evelyn Fox Keller’s A Feeling for the Organism: the Life and Work of Barbara McClintock (Henry Holt, 1983).
“Adventures in Beauty”: This essay incorporates lines from Wallace Stevens (“Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour,” Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies), John Keats (“Ode to a Grecian Urn”).
“Brief Treatise Against Irony”: Zoom information was found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zoom_1972_TV_series. I briefly quote Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty.”
“Walk with Snowy Things”: This essay quotes Thomas Traherne’s poem “My Spirit: Canto II.”
“Bloodspots (I)”: This essay quotes James Wright’s poem “The Jewel.”
“Bloodspots (III)”: This essay quotes Emily Dickinson’s poem #812, “A Light Exists in Spring” and Martin Buber’s I & Thou (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983, tr. Walter Kaufman).