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Appendix

Chronosequential table

In 1963 Gluckman began saving his poems and numbering them
in order written. Since he noted the number of the first piece
following a new year, it is possible to date his early works given the
sequence number and the following table:

Year First poem
------ --------------
1963 1
1964 13
1965 38
1966 115
1967 153
1968 521
1969 799
1970 1512
1971 1816
1972 2019
1973 2201
1974 2232
1975 2262
1976 2312
1977 2325
1978 2334
1979 2357
1980 2486
1981 2525
1982 2533
1983 2538
1984 2553

Those sequence numbers serve as reference points for
determining the date written of individual works. This table also
yields a lopsided sort of bell curve of production, showing a peak in
1969 (a year of transitions for Gluckman) and a gradual tapering-off
through the 1970s (following Boundedness). About half the works in
this collection were composed after 1971, indicating a great number
of early rejects.
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