For invaluable help and advice of many kinds, I wish to thank Jocelyne Barque, Pierre Joris, Cathy Pozzo di Borgo, and Alyson Waters. I am much indebted, naturally, to Jill Schoolman and her team at Archipelago. As so often, I am irretrievably indebted to my fiercest editor, Mia Nadezhda Rublowska. And I owe a very special thanks to Abdellatif Laâbi for his cordial assistance, not to mention his considerable patience.
D. N.-S.