Читать книгу By Heart - Judith Tannenbaum - Страница 8

Acknowledgments

JUDITH AND SPOON begin by thanking each other. Spoon says that writing this book has been a journey, sometimes sad, happy, loving, and mad, but it has been all the time real. He thanks his big sis, Judith, for her endless labor to bring By Heart to light and for creating “the loop”: a constant flow of printed emails, letters, and notes about sightings of his work that kept him inspired when he felt low. And Judith thanks Spoon for wanting to work on a project together, proposing that they write this book, holding hope, putting up with her stressed nature and non-stop letters, talking things out when they got frustrated with each other, and being the most reliable writing partner possible—always on task and on time.

Heartfelt thanks to Gloria Steinem for her encouragement and support and to Alexa Mergen for doing so much, over and over, to help us get the word out. Deepest gratitude to our readers: Rilla Askew, Elmo Chattman, Arlene Goldbard, Nick Jaffe, Sara Press, and Gail Todd. Tremendous thanks to Beppe Arvidsson, Albin Biblom, and Katharine Gin for generously allowing us to use their photographs; Barney Rosset, Astrid Rosset, and Steven Brower for the photo of Samuel Beckett; Abe Jackson for help gathering Spoon’s family photos; Leigh McLellan for her beautiful book design and Adrienne Eliza Aquino for her great cover design; Michel Wenzer for creating films for our project; Kjell Nordeson for recording help for these films; and Jim Carlson for so much. Judith gives big thanks to the staffs, administrators, review panels, and other artist residents at Hedgebrook, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow.

Judith treasures all her prison arts colleagues and thanks each and every one for the way that they and their work enrich her life. She also gives thanks to WritersCorps, the excellent program she’s worked with for fifteen years. Judith is so grateful to have a job that asks her to share what she learned during her years as a community artist and that also gives her time to write. A warm shout out to all WritersCorps teachers over the years and an especially long, loud, and deep thank you to program manager, Janet Heller.

More thanks from Judith to her closest friends—Elmo Chattman, the Harber-Schrogins (Maxim, Karen, Jonah, and Julia), Barbara Naiditch, Gail Todd—and family: Andrew Harkness; Debbie, Jim, Emma, and Gus Ingebretsen; Edith Tannenbaum; the memory of Bob Tannenbaum; and always at the top of Judith’s love-and-thanks list, her daughter, Sara Press.

Spoon gives gratitude to Mother Earth, his mom, his brother Abe, and his Peace G. family and friends in Sweden who have never stopped loving and inspiring him: Annika, Korina, Sanna, Jovanna, Simon, Daneila, Louise, Karin, Krister, Eva, Anna, Lisen, Jann, Michel, Harald, Stefan, Lena, Ingunn, Albin, Mimi, Sverker, and his second mom, Barbro. Spoon gives warm thanks to Samuel Beckett, Barney Rosset, Bill Irwin, Liz Irwin, and Jan Jonson.

Thank you to the wonderful New Village Press. Lynne Elizabeth and the whole New Village team have been fantastic to work with and we’re so grateful for everyone’s sincere interest in our story.

We thank the people who have shared our lives with us. We’ve changed a few names in By Heart, but not many.

Spoon speaks for both himself and Judith as he writes to his fellow prisoners and to young people around the world: “I hope you will continue to make a life out of nothingness. We are still alive and can create that whatever-it-is that frees our hearts and spirits.”

Chapter Five: Stanislav Baranczak’s “If you have to scream ...” is in Under My Own Roof, Mr. Cogito Press, 1980. Czeslaw Milosz’s “Dedication” is in The Collected Poems, Ecco Press, 1988. Pablo Neruda’s “To the Foot from Its Child” is in The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2005.

Chapter Seven: Gary Snyder’s “Hay for the Horses” is in Riprap, Origin Press, 1959. Tu Fu’s “Clear Evening After Rain” is in One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, Kenneth Rexroth editor, New Directions, 1971. Ogden Nash’s The Adventures of Isabel was published as its own book by Little Brown & Co., 1994. Victor Valle’s “Comida” is in Highlights for Children, 2000. Lilian Moore’s “Winter Dark” is in Winter Poems, Scholastic Publishers, 1999. The quote from James was recorded by Scoop Nisker and played on Kris Welch’s Morning Show (radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California) on December 3, 1987.

Chapter Nine: James Wright “A Blessing” is in his Collected Poems, Wesleyan University Press, 1951. Emily Dickinson (341), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1890. Robert Hass, “Spring Drawing II”, Human Wishes, Ecco Press, 1989. Poems by Myrna Scott (used by permission of author) are from Driftwood Shores, 1981.

Chapter Eleven: Excerpts from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, copyright © 1954 by Grove Press, Inc.; copyright © renewed 1984 by Samuel Beckett. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd. The quote from film-maker, Robert Bresson, is from Notes On Cinematography , translated by Jonathan Griffin, 1977.

Chapter Sixteen: Lines from Walt Whitman (“Leaves of Grass”) and Matthew Arnold (“Dover Beach”) are in the public domain.

We have rewritten some material in By Heartfrom previous work:

Judith:

“Artistic Imperialism,” Poetry Flash, 1987. “Human Beings Together,” Turning Wheel, 2003. “In My Two Hands,” coastnews.com, 1996. “Poetry, Teaching, and Love,” Memo: Arts, 1989. “Power or Prison,” inmotionmagazine.com, 2007.

Spoon:

Life/Lines poetry.org, Academy of American Poets. “On Prison Reform,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2006. “Right Now I Choose Sadness,” I Hear America Reading, edited by Jim Burke, Heinemann Publishing, 1999. “Speaking in Poems,” Teaching Artist Journal: Volume 5 Issue 1, 2007.