Notes for “The Fugue Poem: On C.D. Wright and Paul Celan”
[1] Wright, C.D. Deepstep Come Shining (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998).
[2] "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," YouTube, https://youtu.be/iiRJ20LPTv0?t=39
[3] Celan, Paul. "Deathfugue," lines 1-6. Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), trans. Pierre Joris.
[4] Celan, Paul. "Deathfugue," lines 29–35.
[5] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 3
[6] ibid, 5
[7] ibid
[8] ibid
[9] ibid, 37
[10] ibid, 42
[11] ibid, 61
[12] ibid, 77
[13] ibid, 92
[14] ibid, 100
[15] ibid, 99
[16] Celan, “Deathfugue,” lines 1-3.
[17] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 10
[18] ibid
[19] ibid, 52
[20] Celan, “Deathfugue,” lines 34–35.
[21] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 5
[22] ibid, 89
[23] ibid, 101
[24] ibid, 104
[25] ibid
[26] Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1922), trans. C. K. Ogden.
[27] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 22
[28] Johnson, Kent. “Looking for ‘one untranslatable song’: C.D. Wright on poetics, collaboration, American prisoners, and Frank Stanford.” Jacket Magazine. December 2001. http://jacketmagazine.com/15/cdwright-iv.html
[29] Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1922), trans. C. K. Ogden, prop. 6.54 (“throw away the ladder”).
[2] "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," YouTube, https://youtu.be/iiRJ20LPTv0?t=39
[3] Celan, Paul. "Deathfugue," lines 1-6. Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), trans. Pierre Joris.
[4] Celan, Paul. "Deathfugue," lines 29–35.
[5] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 3
[6] ibid, 5
[7] ibid
[8] ibid
[9] ibid, 37
[10] ibid, 42
[11] ibid, 61
[12] ibid, 77
[13] ibid, 92
[14] ibid, 100
[15] ibid, 99
[16] Celan, “Deathfugue,” lines 1-3.
[17] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 10
[18] ibid
[19] ibid, 52
[20] Celan, “Deathfugue,” lines 34–35.
[21] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 5
[22] ibid, 89
[23] ibid, 101
[24] ibid, 104
[25] ibid
[26] Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1922), trans. C. K. Ogden.
[27] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 22
[28] Johnson, Kent. “Looking for ‘one untranslatable song’: C.D. Wright on poetics, collaboration, American prisoners, and Frank Stanford.” Jacket Magazine. December 2001. http://jacketmagazine.com/15/cdwright-iv.html
[29] Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1922), trans. C. K. Ogden, prop. 6.54 (“throw away the ladder”).

