The Song of the Earth
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This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. No reference to any real person is intended or should be inferred.
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1. The Complete Poems of Clorene Welles, New York: Parnassus Press, 2061:103. (61–We5426)
2. Jeanette Baker, The Mother of Beauty: A Journal, 2038–2056, ed. Katherine G. Jackson, New York: Parnassus Press, 2061. (61–BaJa14)
3. John Firth Baker, Collected Correspondence, ed. Katherine G. Jackson, New York: Parnassus Press, 2064. (64–BaJa71)
4. Ibid., p. 32.
5. Dr. Frederick Rust Plowman, Arsogenes: The Genetic Basis of the Ability to Draw and Paint, Kyoto: The Metamorphic Press, 2029. (29–PI726)
Plowman’s quote is from Paul Verlaine’s poem, “Crimen Amoris.” (10–Ve6327)
6. Ozaki is utilizing a translation into Japanese of the New Testament phrase from 1 Jo. 2:17
7. Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Theo, ed. Anthony Wilson, London: Adam Press, 2003:67. (03–VaW4446)
8. Current Biography 2035:937–40. (35–CB86)
9. The Planetary Monitoring Commission reported that from 2025 through 2035, the global temperature had increased 2.9 degrees and the sea level had risen 1'9", causing extensive flooding. Statistical Abstract of The Planet Earth 2035:1784. (35–St5700)
10. Wells, op. cit., p. 87.
11. Jeanette’s epitaph is from Horace: “Non omnis moriar.” The Poems of Horace, tr. Diana Best, Los Angeles: Inanna Press, 2020:117. (20–HoB4159)
12. Short Biographies of 21st Century Manual Artists 2035:763. (35–SBMA10)
13. All information on John Firth Baker’s early development is based on Carol Rose’s analysis of his video baby book. Carol Rose, “The Etiology of John Firth Baker’s ‘Lust of the Eyes’: An Analysis of the Nursery Recordings,” The Journal of Metamorphic Psychology 2062/8:329–47. (62–JMP8)
14. Elbert Lenrow, A Handbook for Manualists, New York: Fieldston Press, 2027:3. (27–Le458)
15. Albert P. Ryder, Paragraphs from the Studio of a Recluse, Boston: MFA Press, 2017:18. (17–RY283)
16. Richard Barnefield, “The Tears of an Affectionate Shepheard sicke for Love,” Oxford Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry, ed. Caitlin Welks, New York: Oxford Press, 2015:36. (15–WE2742)
17. Chicago: Toklas Press, 2018. (18–Sp145)
18. The design is still used today.
19. Words and music by Brianna Countryman, Motherworld Publishing, 2038.
20. Words and music by Brianna Andrews, Motherworld Publishing, 2038.
21. Although Welles neglects to mention it to Johnny, “The Song of the Earth” was clearly influenced by an early draft of T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. Eliot, in turn, was also influenced by Baudelaire’s l’Heautontimoroumenos. See Constance Dry, “The Concatenation of Influence: Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, and Clorene Welles,” The Journal of Transformative Poetry, Summer 2052:417–19. (52–JTB04)
22. Welles, op.cit., p. 187.
23. Words and music by Brianna Andrews, Motherworld Publishing, 2043.
24. Maria Lopez, Femina Dominans: A New Wominkind, Northampton, Mass.: Hippolyta Press, 2028. (28–L0102)
25. Sistah Sally, Poems, New York: Parnassus Press, 2038:110. (38–Sa556)
26. Words and music by Brianna Andrews, Motherworld Publishing, 2031.
27. Not one of the estimated thirty charcoal street portraits produced by JFB during this period has been located.
28. Words and music by Brianna Andrews, Motherworld Publishing, 2037.
29. Words and music by Brianna Andrews, Motherworld Publishing, 2040.
30. See Margaret Boeth, “The Blood-Dimmed Tide,” Collected Sermons, (sermon delivered March 25, 2035), Princeton, N.J.: J. Edwards Press, 2040:85. (40–Bo426)
31. Miyoko Nakaya, Collected Poems, trans. Myra Lotto, San Francisco: Kami Press, 2042, 158. (42–NaLo7)
32. The Collected Poems of Adelaide Crapsey, edited, with an introduction by Clorene Welles, New York: Parnassus Press, 2048:131. (48–CRWE25)
33. Welles, “After Monomoto,” op. cit., p. 96.
34. Welles, “In Memoriam: Vita,” op. cit., p. 43.
35. Masado Kokinshu, “Old Age,” Collected Poems, Spokane: Tagami Publishing, 2025:11. (25–Ko771)
36. Welles, loc. sit.
37. Welles, “Obit,” op. cit., p. 213.