Rikki Ducornet - The Deep Zoo

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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Hodel-Hoenes, Sigrid. Life and Death in Ancient Egypt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. The Wild Child. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Money, John. The Kaspar Hauser Syndrome. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1992.

EROS BREATHING

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Borges, Jorge Luis. Dream Tigers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964.

Chaudhry, Umer A. Red Diary, Estado Chile. Accessed March 15, 2014, http://reddiarypk.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/estadio%20chile/.

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A CUP AND A RIVER

1. William Gass, On Being Blue (Boston: David R. Godine, 1997), 18.

2. William Gass, Omensetter’s Luck (New York: Penguin Books, 1997), 52.

3. Ibid., 19.

4. Ibid., 8.

5. Ibid., 27.

6. Ibid., 28.

7. Ibid., 260.

8. Ibid., 261.

9. Ibid., 9.

10. Ibid., 45.

11. Ibid., 34.

12. Ibid., 70.

13. Ibid., 44.

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

1. Roberto Calasso, Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (New York: Random House, 1999), 272.

THE PRACTICE OF OBSCURITY

1. N. K. Sandars, trans., The Epic of Gilgamesh (New York: Penguin, Penguin Epic Series, 1972), 97. All references to The Epic of Gilgamesh refer to this translation. Other excellent translations are mentioned below.

2. Jun’ichir Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows, trans. T. Harper, E. Seidensticker (Sedgwick, Maine: Leete’s Island Books, 1977; New York: Vintage Books, 2001), 42. Citations refer to the Vintage Books edition.

3. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh, 97.

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.

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.

CANDLES OF INK

Sky Scrolls. Fall 2014, http://www.erikablumenfeld.com/sky-scrolls/.

THE AUTHOR OF nine novels as well as collections of short stories, essays, and poems, Rikki Ducornet has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, honored twice by the Lannan Foundation, and the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.