Forty years of back and forth (and up and down) has produced twelve-and-a-half linear feet of used paper, black ink, and red pencil: my personal monument to "Writing is Rewriting." Anthologizing myself involved making choices, but this collection is not a record of what I didn't choose to throw away, but rather what I chose to keep. It is my literary autobiography, the first part, at least: A to Misc.