Silence Once Begun

  Here acknowledge for generosity in the execution of appointed and unappointed tasks of every conceivable kind:

  NYC

  J. Jackson & all at Vintage, Pantheon, Random House.

  Billy, David, Becky, Jessie & all at Kuhn Projects.

  ELSEWHERE

  C. Ball, Th. Bjornsdottir, A. Aegisdottir.

  CHICAGO

  Salazar Larus, Nora, Nutmeg & Skunkur Amelius.

  S. Levine, L. Wainwright, J. McManus, J. Francis, R. Inoue.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Jesse Ball is the author of three previous novels, including Samedi the Deafness, and several works of verse, bestiaries, and sketchbooks. His prizes include the 2008 Paris Review Plimpton Prize; his verse has been included in the Best American Poetry series. He gives classes on lucid dreaming and lying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  ALSO BY JESSE BALL

  The Curfew

  The Way Through Doors

  Samedi the Deafness