32. Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche, and Marco Ferreri, La Grande Bouffe. Directed by Marco Ferreri. Performed by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, and Andréa Ferréol (Bordeaux: Mara Films; Rome: Capitolina Produzioni Cinematografiche, 1973).
33. Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget (London: Telegram, 2009), 429.
34. Ibid., 429.
35. Ibid., 330.
36. Ibid., 187.
37. Ibid., 466.
38. Davis, Hell, 175.
39. Williams, The Changeling, 77.
40. Ibid., 83.
41. Ibid., 77.
42. Ibid., 86.
43. Ibid., 44, 93.
44. Terrence Malick, Tree of Life. Directed by Terrence Malick. Performed by Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Hunter McCracken, and Jessica Chastain (Los Angeles: River Road Entertainment, 2011).
45. Ibid.
46. Herzog, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Davis, Hell, 1.
THE EGYPTIAN PORTAL: THE ART OF LINDA OKAZAKI
1. Caroline Walker Bynum, Metamorphosis and Identity (New York: Zone Books, 2005), 117.
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EROS BREATHING
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A CUP AND A RIVER
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4. Ibid., 8.
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9. Ibid., 9.
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11. Ibid., 34.
12. Ibid., 70.
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14. Ibid., 45.
15. Ibid., 67.
16. Ibid., 47.
17. Ibid., 35.
18. Ibid., 37.
19. Ibid., 252.
20. Ibid., 66.
21. Ibid., 64.
22. Ibid., 20.
23. Ibid., 41.
24. Ibid., 251.
25. Ibid., 63.
26. Ibid., 60.
27. Ibid., 154, 155.
28. Ibid., 24.
29. Gass, On Being Blue, 77.
30. Gass, Omensetter’s Luck, 47–48
THE WORLD IN A SEED: THE ART OF ANNE HIRONDELLE
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THE PRACTICE OF OBSCURITY
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4. Ibid., 62.
5. Ibid., 67.
6. Ibid., 70.
7. Ibid., 93.
8. Ibid., 78.
9. Jorge Luis Borges, “Zahir,” in Collected Fictions, trans. Andrew Hurley (New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998), 247.
10. Alfonso D’Aquino, “Amorous,” in Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, ed. Mónica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2002), 161.
11. Elsa Cross, “Ivy,” in de la Torre and Wiegers, Reversible Monuments, 137.
12. Pura López-Colomé, “The Kiss of Death” Ibid., 351.
13. Ibn ‘Arabî, Le Chant de l’ardent desir (Paris, Actes Sud: 1989), 39.
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CANDLES OF INK
This essay, originally published in Australia, refers to a book as yet to be finished.
Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank the publishers of the following journals and anthologies, where several of the essays in this book first appeared.
THE DEEP ZOO
Fetherston, Kate and Roger Weingarten, eds. Open Book. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.
Morrow, Brad, ed. Conjunctions: Rejoicing Revoicing. (Bard College, New York) 38 (2004): 14–22.
Roseheim, Paul, ed. The Deep Zoo: Two Essays. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2004.
The Cult of Seizure. Cheltenham, UK: Skylight Press, 2012.
Desirous. Edited by John Wronoski. Cambridge, MA: Pierre Menard Gallery, 2007. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Pierre Menard Gallery.
BOOKS OF NATURAL AND UNNATURAL NATURE
DeVine, Christine, ed. Turningpoints and Transformations: Essays on Literature, Language and Culture. New Castle, UK: Scholars Press, 2011.
“Her Bright Materials,” “The Egyptian Portal,” and “The World In A Seed”: Ducornet, Rikki, ed. Port Townsend, WA: Stone Eye Press, 2013, 2014.
WAR’S BODY
Granta (September 7, 2011), http://www.granta.com/new-writing/wars-body.
WATER AND DREAMS
Martone, Michael, ed. Rules of Thumb. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2006.
SILLING
Roseheim, Paul, ed. The Deep Zoo: Two Essays. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2004.
Ryker, Martin, ed. “Silling: A Sadean Mirror,” Context (Dalkey Archive Press) 12 (2009).
EROS BREATHING
Night Road, Lily Hoang ed. 2014.
A CUP AND A RIVER
Ducornet, Rikki, “Hommage to William Gass” (lecture, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2009).
WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE
Workman, Michael, ed. Bridge Magazine (University of Chicago) 2, no. 2 (2003).
THE PRACTICE OF OBSCURITY
Bernheimer, Kate, ed. “The Red Issue.” Fairy Tale Review 6, no. 1 (2010). Sammarcelli, Francoise, ed. L’obscur. Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2009.