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poems themselves. Sometimes I have used a word, a small phrase,
a concept. Sometimes a poem, a work of art, a woman’s life, an
experience, or a passing comment has provided the core of a line or
a poem. I have acknowledged these throughout the poems.
There are also women who have continued to nurture me. Their
contribution cannot be measured. I cannot weight the ways in
which they have changed my life. They have sometimes made it
bearable; at other times they have brought me enormous joy; they
have challenged me with honesty; and they have been interested. I
cannot name all whose lives have moved me, but I will name those
who’ve had a direct impact on this book. I would like to thank the
women at Spinifex Press: Maralann Damiano for keeping me sane
(and tidy); Belinda Morris for her editorial eagle eye; Jo O’Brien for
her financial discernment; and Deb Snibson for the design and
typesetting of this book. I have been lucky to have editorial
feedback from four poets. I would like to thank Suniti Namjoshi for
her generous editing of my work, especially “India Sutra”. Judith
Rodriguez responded with in-depth comments on “Unstopped
Mouths” including its layout, while Lizz Murphy gave me early
feedback on this series. Patricia Sykes read early drafts of
"Unstopped Mouths" and gave all of The Butterfly Effect her precise
attention at a very late stage, and I am indebted to her for her
challenges and detailed comments. I thank them all for their poetic
acumen and for saving me from syntactic and semantic
embarrassment (any errors are my oversight). Thanks to: Donna
Jackson and Jean Taylor who enticed me into circus and into its
many pathways through fear and performance; Suzanne Bellamy
for art and life; Diane Bell for friendship and a reference; Meryl
Waugh for her stargazing and farsightedness; Coleen Clare for her
strength and honesty; Zohl dé Ishtar for camp fire stories; Lariane
Fonseca for travels in India and a lesbian visual aesthetic; Kaye
Moseley for a quarter of a century of conversations and coffee; my
dog River for her patience and joyousness; and to my partner,
Renate Klein for her great spirit of generosity, her passionate
engagement with life, and her love.