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Note by Heyen on inside flyleaf reads: "This notebook contains drafts of many Holocaust poems including 'Art' & 'The Maggots Speak' & 'Religion,' [these three poems to appear in American Poetry Review], many of The Orphanage poemlets, many sections of the Straight Suite for Frank O'Hara, and of many miscallaneous poems."

This book contains the first drafts of the poem "Evidence," which appears in Shoah Train.

Note by Heyen on inside flyleaf reads: "This notebook contains drafts of the pignote 'Art,' the bookstore poem, some poems toward The Football Corporations, 'From the Fields,' 'Family Dream,' hundreds of poems toward The Orphanage, 'Classmate,' 'Cage,' drafts of Village Board pieces including the one on the letter that was not a letter published locally, the suite of Yankee poems, 'Pitch' & 'Speak, Memory' that went into A Poetics of Hiroshima, the pig note 'Oxymoron,' and much more."