The Feast of Love

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Earlier versions of three of the chapters in this book appeared in Boulevard, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly. Thanks to the editors of these publications. Grateful thanks also go to Mark Ricciardi, William Wiser, Dick Bausch, L. M. Daniel for his dragon, Eileen Pollack, Carol Houck Smith, and Dan Frank. Martha H. and Daniel J. saw it through and deserve more than a mention. The title and the summer solstice party in Chapter Twenty-seven were suggested by Virgil Thomson’s translation and musical setting of the anonymous second- or fourth-century A.D. poem the Pervigilium Veneris.