New Directions acknowledges the original sources of the epigraphs used in Praiseworthy. If any work has not been acknowledged here, we will make due reference in any future edition.
PRAISEWORTHY“I Am Not Even Dust,” by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Eric McHenry, translation copyright © 1999 by Eric McHenry, copyright © 1999 by Maria Kodama, from Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Alexander Coleman. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
NEW GODSWaanyi language words and quotation on butterflies from the Waanyi dictionary, Waanyi Nation Aboriginal Corporation, 2012.
MOTH OPERADavid Auerbach, “László Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming: The Spiderweb and the Abyss,” Music & Literature, 2019.
GODDESS OF SCALES“The Suicide,” by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Alastair Reid, translation copyright © 1999 by Alastair Reid, copyright © 1999 by Maria Kodama, from Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Alexander Coleman. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
ONE DONKEY AT A TIMEYanyuwa Gem, Diwurruwurru: Poetry from the Gulf of Carpentaria, by the Borroloola Poetry Club with Philip Hall, Rune Books, 2015.
HOLY DONKEY BUSINESSLines from “Quickness” from Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino. Geoffrey Brock translation copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
ICE QUEENS“Glad All Over,” Dave Clark and Mike Smith, song recorded by The Dave Clark Five, Columbia/Epic, 1963.