Notes from the authors on the process of making this book. "In "Go-Between Between," Anne Waldman writes: "Language does more than merely communicate and 'express.' It arrives, it manifests, it is a relationship."' This book enacts language as arrival and manifestation, composed as it was in the go-between of an email exchange. Both of us were (and are) interested in a poetics of constraint, of resistance, of inventiveness, and in the process of homolinguistic (English to English) translation. To while away a few winter months with some fun and a challenge, we devised a translation exercise. In "Alphabetic Jitterbug," Steven supplied the first text based on an alphabetic accumulation, and Hilary determined a first method of translation of that section: For each word, find in the dictionary the first (or a nearby) word of the same kind (for example, a noun for a noun), and do a replacement. This method was used a few times to produce successive texts; then in "Can a Paddy Sweat?" Steven initiated a course of homophonic translation. After a few more go-betweens, in "Beloved Enema" Hilary pulled the process back into the dictionary: the homophonic method continued, but now combined (erratically) with translation via synonyms. Finally, in "Randy Peaches Haiku" we alternated individual lines of haiku between us (all haiku words from the last text in "Beloved Enema"). The required 5-7-5 syllable count was adhered to." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.