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WESLEYAN POETRY

Wesleyan University Press

Middletown CT 06459

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This is a creative and original work of poetry about the poet’s life and her experience of Kanye West’s work and public persona. Kanye West does not authorize, endorse or approve of any of the material contained in this book.

Excerpt in “Gaze” on pp. 89–91 from Catie Rosemurgy, “Variorum,” in The Stranger Manual. Copyright © 2010 by Catie Rosemurgy. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.

Excerpts in “The Fallible Face” on pp. 28–30 from Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1995), 86, 92; and Totality and Infinity (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1969), 75, 178, 199. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Blake, Sarah (Poet)

[Poems. Selections]

Mr. West / Sarah Blake.

pages cm. — (Wesleyan Poetry series)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8195-7517-3 (cloth: alk. paper) —

ISBN 978-0-8195-7518-0 (ebook)

I. Title.

Ps3602.l3485a6 2015

811’.6—dc23

2014035803

5 4 3 2 1

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Cover image: Relief of the falcon god Horus at the Temple of Edfu in Egypt. Photograph © Olaf Tausch, from Wikimedia Commons.