Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Where the Long Grass Bends
Possession at the Tomb of Sayyed Pir Hazrat Baba Bahadur Saheed Rah Aleh
The Spirits, Anger and Sorrow
The Tomb
Apsara, Gopal, and Nanak
Auntie Is Useful
Nanak, The Shoe-Finder
How to Make a Salty Lassi
On His Own
The Man-Woman
What Nanak Will Remember
A Second Man-Woman
The Spirits, Joy and Guilt
Friday Comes
Twang (Release)
The Excrement Man
Twelve Years Later
What the Stars Said and an Upset Stomach
Holi and The Hand of Bandar
A Christian Place
Some Time Later and a Bad Dinner
Maize, the Table
The Storeroom and the Dead Eunuch
The Stroller
Sita and Ms. Durber
Five Objects in Queens
White Nova. Circa 1979. Astoria, Queens.
Gardening Gloves. Circa 1980. Astoria, Queens.
Brown Ceramic Plate. Circa 1984. Astoria, Queens.
Snorkel with Blue Rim and Dolphin Insignia. Circa 1991. Astoria, Queens.
Cuticle Scissors. Circa 1994. Astoria, Queens.
Bing-Chen
Domestication of an Imaginary Goat
The Rigors of Dance Lessons
Bolero
War: Euskal Herria
Evolution
Time Passes
Again, My Heart
Translations
Scheherazade, Op. 35, Rimsky-Korsakov
September 11, 2001
Felix on the Subway Platform: Halloween
Ilona at the Met
Felix Dreams of the Dead
The Pelvis Series
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VI.
An Outline of No Direction
Blue, Without Sorrow
Acknowledgments
The Author
Copyright Page