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Footnotes

1

Michael W. Peplow and Robert S. Bravard, Samuel R. Delany: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1962–1919 (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1980).

2

Marilyn Hacker, “Catherine Pregnant,” in Separations (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976), p. 23. Originally written in late October or early November of 1962 as an untitled sonnet in triplets, this poem was later incorporated in the Catherine series, the rest of which, based largely on incidents from the life of Claudie, first wife of painter and sculptor David Logan, were written a year or more later.

3

Nanny Murrell, “Sleeping Beauty,” in Dynamo, the annual literary magazine of the Bronx High School of Science for 1955.

4

This line is from an uncollected, unpublished poem by Marilyn Hacker, whose title I no longer recall.

5

From “Soliloquy for a Sunset” by Marilyn Hacker. In four long stanzas, this poem is uncollected and unpublished. I quote these lines from memory.

6

Hacker, “Chanson de l’enfant prodigue,” in Presentation Piece (New York: Viking, 1974), p. 8.

7

Hacker, “Mathematical appeared in Dynamo, the annual literary magazine of the Bronx High School of Science for 1958.

8

The lines in this section are from Perseus: An Exercise for Three Voices, by Marilyn Hacker. The poem is uncollected and unpublished.

9

Familiar with the street culture of those years and encountering the above passage in the first edition of this book, a contemporary reader, John Del Gaizo, informs me that the “T. K” stood for the words “to kill”—so that the entire acronym expands to “Down to kill like a mother-fucker.”

10

Hacker, “Prism and Lens,” in Separations, p. 67.

11

Hacker, “Catherine Pregnant,” in Separations, p. 23.

12

10. Karl Shapiro, “Auden,” The Harvard Advocate, 108, no. 2 and 3 (1976): p. 25.

13

Hacker, “Prism and Lens,” in Separations, p. 70.

14

Ibid., p. 71.

15

Uncollected, untitled, and unpublished doggerel by Marilyn Hacker.

16

Uncollected, untitled, and unpublished couplet by Marilyn Hacker.

17

Uncollected, untitled, and unpublished limerick by Marilyn Hacker.

18

A few years later, Auden changed his mind about the pronunciation; in a subsequently published “Academic Short,” he was to rhyme “Arthur Hugh Clough” with “enough.” But that night was “Clow.”