Copyright © 1984, 2012 by Barry Yourgrau
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Some of these pieces have appeared in a previous collection, The Sadness of Sex (Whale Cloth Press, 1979), and in the following publications: Paris Review, New York Times, Bomb, Washington Review of the Arts, Hanging Loose, Appearances, kayak, World, Telephone, Poetry Project Newsletter, East Village Eye, Joe Soap’s Canoe, and Dumb Magazine. “Apocrypha” appeared in Poetry.
The author would like to thank the New York State Council on the Arts for a CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service) Fellowship in Fiction, and the Ragdale Foundation for its generous hospitality. The author would also like to express his gratitude to Paul Violi.
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