I have just now re-read the Paterson interview in LM and came across the following paragraph that I had missed earlier.
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One is always writing a new collection, alas. Symphosius wrote one hundred after-dinner riddles, the Aenigmata, and I’m trying to write a hundred sixteen-line poems that use the solutions to those riddles as the titles. I expect I’ll fall short of the goal somewhere around the sixty-four-page extent zone. The book has nothing to do with riddles or Symphosius at all, but the list of pre-determined subjects that I’ve stolen from Aenigmata is weirdly comprehensive.
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It helps a little, except that
Die is not a 16 line poem, though it is a riddle.