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The author gratefully acknowledges the following publications in which poems in Chinese Whispers first appeared, sometimes in slightly different form: The American Poetry Review, Bard Papers, Conjunctions, The Germ, Green Mountains Review, The Harvard Advocate, Harvard Review, Hotel Amerika, jubilat, The London Review of Books, Nest, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, L’Oeil de Boeuf, The Paris Review, PN Review, Poetry, Poetry Review (UK), Raritan, Shiny, and The Times Literary Supplement; also Carcanet 2000: A Commonplace Book and The Drawing Center’s Line Reading: An Anthology 2000–2001.
“The American” was first published as a broadside by the Dia Center for the Arts on the occasion of John Ashbery and Robert Creeley’s reading, 13 January 2001.
A number of these poems were included in the collection As Umbrellas Follow Rain, published in a limited edition by Qua Books, 2001.
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