Epigraph (page ix): Complete Works. Vol. 1. Saint Teresa of Avila. Trans, and ed. E. Allison Peers. London: Sheed & Ward, 1946.
“The Alchemy of Happiness”: Out of Bounds prison magazine, vol. 19, no. 4, for “The Stars.”
“The Pink City”: The Andrei passages in italics are taken from Nostalgia for the Present. Andrei Voznesensky. London: Oxford University Press, 1980.
“Calendar”: Exile magazine for the majority of the poems in this section; for early versions of “February I,” “April,” “September,” and “December,” Breaking the Surface. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press, 2000.