CONTENTS
I
Do You Want to Touch It?
My New Glasses
Of Smells
Game of Pearls
Corpse Pose
Beauty Parlor at Hotel Dada
II
No More Tasks
Figure It Out
Odd Secrets of the Line
Making Marks
“My” Masculinity Remix
The Porn Punctum
The Task of the Translator
III
Punctuation
On Futility, Holes, and Hervé Guibert
Riding the Escalator with Eve
Adrienne Rich’s Musical Ethics
I Don’t Understand Shakespeare’s Sonnet #154
My Brief Apprenticeship with John Barth
Twelve Assignments
IV
Six Stars
Celebrity’s Secret Ameliorations
An Evening of Screen Tests
Rauschenberg’s Squeegee
Eighteen Lunchtime Assignments
Little Elegy
Acknowledgments