PROOF CORRECTIONS: THE PLESYRE BARGE (forthcoming Greying Ghost)
pg. 2 The second last line of section 3 reads “In the cold the crummy north-west-wind bends …”. Delete hyphen connecting west to wind, so the line now reads “In the cold the crummy north-west wind bends …”
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pg. 4: The first line of section 1. Here I use an antique method of abbreviating William in the name William Harvey. The name is abbreviated by ‘Will’ followed by a superscripted ‘m’. Thus: ‘Will[superscripted 'm' goes here] Harvey'.
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pg. 7: First line of 2nd stanza: delete extra space at beginning of “told me it’s fine…”
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pg. 8: Last line. Delete extra space at beginning of “to wrap our splintered …”
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pg. 9 In the quotation by John Clare, second line, “you Are. You must excuse …” Are should not be capitalized. It should read: “you are. You must excuse me for I have nothing to communicate or”
pg. 9: Last stanza on this page. Second line. In my copy the possessive form of the proper name
‘Sir Clyde “Humpy” de Bank’s’ contains a symbol – a rectangle containing an X -- where the apostrophe should be. Please delete symbol, add apostrophe.
pg. 10: Add italics to phrase “You, too!” in the poem’s penultimate stanza.
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pg. 11: First line. ‘Rest-room” should read ‘restroom’.
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pg. 16 Italics missing from several lines in MONSTER PICKS UP A TENOR. The following phrases/lines should be italicized:
… Got my golden
horn to drink from, man.
And:
[… ] Don’t fuck
With me or my tenor!
Sweetest slice
in the world comes
from my horn.
And:
“Believe Me, If All Those
Endearing Young Charms.”
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pg. 20 In the subtitle ‘From Reports of The Princeton University …’ there is an extra space between ‘of’ and ‘The Princeton’
Please delete.
In line 7: ‘awn’ should be italicized ‘awn’.
In line 8 ‘Stems’ should be italicized ‘Stems…’
In line 25: ‘way’ should be italicized ‘…way leafy.’
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