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West’s BET performance of “Power.” See West’s “Runaway.”
    â€œGaze”: See Catie Rosemurgy’s “Variorum” from her book, The Stranger Manual .
    â€œGaze”: See my father-in-law, born before the end of World War II. See his mother, choosing to get pregnant and bring a Jewish child into this world at a time when Jews were being killed by the millions. See, I imagine, an incredible amount of faith in herself as a mother, in her ability to provide. See how she was right. See how that’s incredible. If she hadn’t, I wouldn’t have my husband or my son.
    â€œTeeth”: See Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
    â€œKanye Is Glamorous”: See Barack Obama calling West a jackass in 2009, and affirming his statement in 2012. See West’s response in a 2010 XXL interview, “He was trying to pass the healthcare bill. And if he said that to relate to theroom or lighten the room up and the whole mood, then I’d be more than happy to be the butt of all of his jokes if it in some way helps his overall mission.”
    â€œKanye Raps, ‘    ’ ”: See line three of verse two of West’s “Way Too Cold.”
    â€œKanye Raps, ‘    ’ ”: See Evan McGarvey, who first said West was Paris.
    â€œKanye Raps, ‘    ’ ”: See North (Nori) West, baby girl of Kardashian and West, born June 15, 2013. See Kardashian and West married on May 24, 2014.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    Sincere thanks to the editors of the following journals, who published many of these poems, often in earlier versions:
    At Length: “After Donda Died, Kanye Dated Amber,” “Kanye as a Quantum Particle Yet to Be Observed,” “It’s Hard Not to Be Moved,” “Because Kanye Isn’t King Kong or Emmett Till or a N****,” “Jesus Walks,” “I Want a House to Raise My Son In,” “Dear Donda,” “Runaway”
    The Awl: “Ha Ha Hum,” “Heartbreak,” “Kanye’s Circulatory System,” “Seeing Kanye”
    Barrelhouse: “Twilight: Starring Kanye,” “Teeth,” “Kanye Raps,    ,’ Part 1,” “Kanye Raps, ‘    ,’ Part 2”
    Boston Review: “A Day at the Mall Reminds Me of America,” “Three Months, to the Day, Before Taylor Turns Twenty, but Kanye,” “‘Runaway’ Premieres in Los Angeles on October 18, 2010,” “I Try Not to See Myself as a Mother Figure,” “Suge Knight,” “Kanye Is Glamorous,” “Adventures”
    Drunken Boat: “Kanye’s Skeletal System,” “My Summer with Kanye”
    Fleeting Magazine: “The Week Kanye Joined Twitter”
    #GOODLitSwerveAutumn: An Anthology of Independent Literature About Kanye West : “Con Moto,” “In Song,” “On November 10th, 2007, Donda West Died,” “God’s Face Over Gold”
    JERRY : “Hate Is for Hitler,” “I No Longer Have to Look Up Dates Like Your Birthday, June 8, 1977,” “Hybrid”
    Juked: “Kanye’s Digestive System”
    MiPOesias: “Like the Poems Do”
    The Musehouse Journal: “Watching Weeks,” “Taylor Doesn’t Speak Out Against Racism”
    The Northville Review: “Aftermath”
    Sentence: “Dear Kanye”
    Witness: “God Created Night and It Was Night,” “The Fallible Face,” “So Kanye Transformed Himself, Producer to Superstar”
    â€œA Day at the Mall Reminds Me of America” was developed as a short film at motionpoems.com .
    Thank you to my husband, Noah, and my son, Aaron. Thank you to Kanye and Donda West. Thank you to Judy Michaels, Tom Quigley, Cathy Day, Tom Cable, Brian Bremen, Bruce Snider, and Marie Howe. And so thank you to Princeton Day School, The College of New Jersey, The University of Texas at