Hunger's Brides (225 page)

From friends to editors and back again: Edna Alford at the Banff Centre, who believed before I did; Anne Collins at Random House, who believed when I had begun to stop. Surely no writer has been more blessedly mistaken in his prejudices about the editorial soul.

From editors to family: My father, for the stories and the drives, my mother, for the nursery books and nursery rhymes, my sisters, for glimpses of the exotic orient of women's lives. To the Ikeda-Cameron family and to Lil, for teaching me the Drabiuk house rules.

These books are written for Satsuki, for enfolding me in peace these long years.

Pale mountain flower … dancing mistress of my heart.

Who has the courage to face the hardest questions,

and strength to go on without answers.

The author would like to acknowledge the kind permission of the following rights holders to reprint from their material.

Guy Davenport: Translation of Sappho, from
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman
, copyright © 1980. Published with permission of the author.

Constance Garnett, revised by Avrahm Yarmolinsky: Translations from Dostoevsky's
The Brothers Karamazov
, copyright © 1920, 1933. All selections have been reprinted with the permission of Easton Press.

Excerpt from THE GOLDEN ASS by Apuleius, translated by Robert Graves. Copyright © 1951, renewed 1979 by Robert Graves. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Richard Lattimore: Translation of Aeschylus, from THE COMPLETE GREEK TRAGEDIES, AESCHYLUS I, copyright © 1953, reprinted by permission of the publisher, University of Chicago Press.

Miguel Leon-Portilla: Translation from Nezahualcoyotl, from
Fifteen Poets of the Aztec
World
, copyright © 1992. Reprinted by permission of University of Oklahoma Press.

Miriam Lichtheim: Translations from
Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings
,
Vols I-III
, copyright © 1973. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.

Richard Livingston: Translation of Thucydides, from
The History of the Peloponnesian
War
, copyright © 1943. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. Margaret Sayers Peden: Translation of Octavio Paz, reprinted by permission of the

publisher from SOR JUANA: OR, THE TRAPS OF FAITH, by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright © 1988 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Margaret Sayers Peden: Translation of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's
La Respuesta a Sor
Filotea
, originally commissioned by Lime Rock Press, Inc., in
A Woman of Genius:
The Intellectual Autobiography of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
, copyright © 1982 by Lime Rock Press, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

Dava Sobel: Translation of Galileo, from
Galileo's Daughter
, copyright © 1999 by Dava Sobel. Printed by permission of Walker & Co.

Alan H. Sommerstein: Translation from Aristophanes, from
Lysistrata and Other Plays
, copyright © 1973, 2002. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

Thelma D. Sullivan: Translations of Nahuatl texts from
A Scattering of Jades: Stories
,
Poems and Prayers of the Aztecs
, copyright © Rita Wilensky, 1994. Reprinted with permission.

Alan Trueblood: Translations of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, reprinted by permission of the publisher from A SOR JUANA ANTHOLOGY, translated by Alan S.
Trueblood, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, copyright © 1988 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

F.J. Warnke: Translation of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, from
Three Women Poets:
Renaissance and Baroque: Louise Labe, Gaspara Stampa, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
, copyright © 1987. Reprinted by permission of Bucknell University Press via Associated University Presses.

A.E. Watts: Translation of Ovid, from
The Metamorphoses of Ovid: an English version
, copyright © 1954, reprinted by permission of University of California Press.

Selections from the following material have been reprinted in a manner consistent with provisions of Fair Use.

Robert Aziz: From
C.G. Jung's Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity
, State University of New York Press, copyright © 1990.

Anne Carson: Translation of Plutarch, from
Men in the Off Hours
, Knopf, copyright © 2000.

Sincere efforts have been made to obtain permission to reprint from all material cited in
Hunger's Brides
. Notice of any omission would be gratefully welcomed by the author, and any oversight remedied at the earliest opportunity.

PAUL ANDERSON
left Canada in his early twenties and spent years travelling in Asia, studying in Europe and teaching in Latin America, logging 25,000 miles of coastal and ocean sailing along the way.
Hunger's Brides
, his first novel, has been a labour of twelve years. In 1996, Alberta's One Yellow Rabbit theatre company toured a dramatic reading adapted by the author from an early manuscript of the novel, and performed in the convent where Sor Juana died. Anderson lives for the moment in Calgary.

To learn more, please visit Anderson's website:
www.hungersbrides.com
.