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What say repulsive caterpillar turns into cause of a thing migratory No welcome showering through nuance of his effusive propensity That he should have nothing to do but sleep all day in fatal accomplished element That he should wake with pain across forehead wildly signaling earth from balloon whose lines were cut by a girl he met in Butterfly Park [Author Affiliation] SPENCER SELBY [Author Affiliation] NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS [Author Affiliation] David Andrews is the author of Aestheticism, Nabokov, and Lolita (Edwin Mellen, 1999). His essays, reviews, and interviews relating to the work of Gilbert Sorrentino can be found in the current issues of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Hunger, and Bridge. He teaches literature and writing at University of Illinois at Chicago. Steve Anker has been Artistic Director and Director of San Francisco Cinematheque since 1982, and Professor of Filmmaking and Film History at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1984. He co-curated and contributed a catalogue essay for the 76-program retrospective Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films, which was presented at MoMA from 1998 to 2001. Lee Ann Brown is the editor and publisher of Tender Buttons, an award-winning independent press that features experimental poetry by women. Her first full-length book, Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1999) won the New American Poetry Prize; The Sleep That Changed Everything is due from Wesleyan University Press in Fall 2002. She lives in New York City, and teaches at St. John's University on Staten Island * Fred Camper is a writer and lecturer on film, art, and photography who lives in Chicago. He writes regularly for the Chicago Reader, and his website is www.fredcamper.com. - Bradin Cormack teaches English at the University of Chicago. Guy Davenport's recent books are The Hunter Gracchus & Other Papers on Literature and Art (Counterpoint, 1996), Objects on a Table (Counterpoint, 1998), and Twelve Stories (Counterpoint, 1997). Anthony Doerr's first book, a collection of stories entitled The Shell Collector, was published in January 2002 by Scribner. His stories appeared last year in the Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and elsewhere. He recently won a Literature Fellowship from the NEA, and he lives with his wife and dog in Boise, Idaho. Nathaniel Dorsky was born in New York City in 1943, and has been making films in the avant garde tradition since 1964. His films have been premiered at the New York Film Festival over the last five years. He makes his living as a film editor in the film industry. Antonio Facchino lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He conducts poetry workshops with California Poets in the Schools and works as a Director of Photography for Think Tank Video. Other poems of his have appeared in Santa Clara Review. Paul Hoover's recent poetry books include Rehearsal in Black (Salt Publications, 2001), Totem and Shadow: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1999), and VIRIDIAN (University of Georgia Press, 1997). He edited Postmodern American Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1994) and is editor of the literary magazine New American Writing. - Christine Hume teaches at Eastern Michigan University. Philip W. Jenks lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches [Author Affiliation] at Portland State University. His first full-length volume of poetry, On the Cave You Live In, was published in January 2002 by Flood Editions Press. …