Notes

“The Disaster” and “Turned Back the Disaster Comes Back” collage phrases from Maurice Blanchot’s The Writing of the Disaster.

“What We’re Trying to Do Is Create a Community of Dreamers” uses as source material comments by Hunter Lee Soik as quoted in “Dream On,” in the October 28, 2013, issue of the New Yorker.

Each section of “A Poetics of Space” uses a corresponding chapter of Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space as a source text.

Several poems borrow or riff upon phrases by others: The messengers come when you are sitting at the table, Joy Williams; My muse is not a horse, Nick Cave; Love never dies a natural death, Anaïs Nin; One case from [the] past is cause for particular vexation, Anthony Lane; Where the use of cannon is impractical and My most illustrious Lord, I know how to remove water…, Leonardo da Vinci; Here we are at the palace… and We mourn the end by applauding, Sarah Ruhl; How many pills to kill this thin papery feeling, Sylvia Plath; O my America, O my newfound land, John Donne.