CONTENTS

Copyright

Dedication

Object Permanence

Portuguese Dolls

Legless Doll

Burning Doll

Handless Doll

Big-Handed Doll

Handless and Legless Doll

Doll With Pants

Lamp Doll

Praying Doll

Bodiless Dolls

Slanted Head

Large Head Under Glass

Chinese Head With Red Neckmark

Chinese Head With Hole in Back of Skull

Head Looking Up

Animals

Bronze Lion Head

Porcelain Cicadas

Porcelain Hen

Goose

Millar’s New Complete & Universal System of Geography

A Perspective View of the Hague, a Celebrated Town in Holland

A General View of the City & Castle of Edinburgh, the Capital of Scotland

A General View of London, the Capital of England—Taken From An Eminence Near Islington

A View of Quebec, the Capital of Canada in North America

A General View of Paris, the Capital of France, Taken From An Eminence in the Village of Chaillot

An Accurate Prospect of Vienna, the Capital of Germany

A Perspective View of Dresden, the Capital City of Saxony

A General View of Madrid, the Capital of New Castille, and of the Kingdom of Spain

You Be the Arpeggio

Cadaverous Clara

Cadaverous Clara

Eleemosynary Mercenary

Nature’s Nutjobs

Who Sees a Future Market in Entertainment Robots?

A Walk For the Low Level

Nurse Shark

I. Live Science

II. Who Is Based in Baja?

III. Who Is Based On Loss?

IV. Like It Made Matmos,

V. Ganso

VI. Phase Science

Insulation

Gathering Marigolds

For the Innovation of Commercials

S.U.A.

Stalling

The Wall of Internal Beginning

Furrings

The Lost Originals

The Mariana Trench

First Sounding

Poured Tent Under Tutelage, Invisible Angle

The Infant Disinherits the Region of the Sun

In All His Woods in All His Mangy

Retrove Ambrosia and the Nectar Verlaine

He Games in the Wind, Causes the Nuance

Environed Singing the Chimney of St. Croix

And the Spirit in a Suit, Dank in the Age of Skin

The Rain of Seeing Like a Wooden Bird

Second Sounding

Test Expert Under Control of Invisible Age

Child Enters Sun

Relative to the Whole Scabious Forest

Poesie Verlaine

Gradate Jowls Wind, Causes Except Him

The Edge Surrounds the Ticket in the Chimney in the Way

Stretch Owing to the Age of the Shovel

Rain As Wood Bird

Postscript

What Is Poetry?

Notes and Acknowledgements

David B. Goldstein

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