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Other Books by Steve Erickson
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Epigraph
One | Shenandoah
Things don’t just disappear into thin—
the unnamed song
summer wine
cross the wide Missouri
all our trials
emergence
the unheard song
Did they just appear out of the thin
badlands
return to sender
towers of song (lakota)
the long boulevard
hallowing / desecration
I long to hear you
first crossfade
second crossfade
sonic sky
turin
the unsung song
the unremembered song
the homeless song
the unmanaged song
the forbidden song
the untethered song
the song that is really another song
without a dream in my heart
without a song of my own
the voice that is really another voice
Gladys Love
the unwanted song
the undreamed song
the unforgiven song
take the highway that is best
Get your kicks on . . .
twentieth century
third crossfade
song of Sheba
the beckoning (one)
bar code
occupancy
cartography
current events
mixtape nation
song of Zema
EQ (frequency-specific)
EQ (flat)
the secret song
trans (impunity)
stereo (bass)
stereo (treble)
Within two hours of the
suspicious minds
the denied song
jihad
those
jurisdiction (one)
the song in pursuit
the song on her trail
the beckoning (two)
song hanging from a tree
Ninety-three floors up, Jesse
the unloved song
the untamed song
the fill of the sky
the fall of the sound
the beckoning (three)
top of the world
double trouble
into the past
Two | Supersonik
Day 0 Millenniux (9/12/01) | Almanac in Song, or an Autobiographical Soundtrack
tracks 01 and 02: | “Naima” and “Subterraneans”
With his sister sleeping in
badlands (reprise)
starless stripes
darklands
only-children (right speaker)
only-children (left speaker)
Parker’s mood (take one)
Parker’s mood (take two)
you can’t leave ’cause your heart is there
dead-free
juke
jook
the natural song
final crossfade (Muleshoe)
one road more
snake
siren
hush vortex
ghost dance (one)
ghost dance (two)
ghost dance (three)
into thin air
sonography
chronometry
out of the future
Candy says (New York City 1966)
ROUND MIDNIGHT | May 1968
tracks 03 and 04: | “Wooly Bully” and “Tomorrow Never Knows”
tracks 05 and 06: | “La Bamba” and “A Matter of Time”
When she was eight, in
Sometimes her father wouldn’t
One afternoon, the
we want the airwaves
rune
treason
the fugitive song
caravan
dust to dust
sound check
off / on
on / off
calling out around the world
ready for a brand-new beat
time is right
jurisdiction (two)
the song in hiding
Radio Ethiopia
and where will she go
and what shall she do
Three | Earshot
tracks 07 and 08: | “Pilots” and “Seven Nation Army”
when midnight comes around
June 3, 1968
and cry behind the door
factory
the smallest taste
revisions
chord of D
strobe
key of J
Jack
magnum
everything
variables
July 13, 1960
jigsaw
yes / no
no / yes
the refuted song
the wrecked song
closing track
fade
hidden track
[stuck in the groove]
[the needle lifted]
no refrain
the unreasoned song
the unwritten song
Valerie
tracks 09 and 10: | “Dancing in the Dark” and “Spirit in the Dark”
tracks 11 and 12: | “That Lucky Old Sun” and “Warmth of the Sun”
aquarium
procedural
echo
ricochet
imagine
crossroad
45
Winston
a trail
Dakota
instant karma
don’t believe in
just believe in
New York City 1968–73
moon (sun)
Four | Desamor
tracks 13 and 14: | “Night Train” and “People Get Ready”
devices of experience
gardening
education
disappearing (the world-famous author)
what you need, you have to borrow
disappearing (the surrogates)
what you get is no tomorrow
source
quadrex
the beacon
track 15: | “Surrender”
when justice is gone, there’s always
towers of song (new doubling)
the secret track’s secret track
real real gone for a change
the half-remembered song
the insubordinate song
and when force is gone, there’s always
curve
the unfinished song
the unworthy song
ambienopolis
the unknown song
tracks 16 and 17: | “Black and Tan Fantasy” and “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down”
tracks 18 and 19: | “Stormy Weather” and “Where or When”
the near song
the stowaway song
vestige
clef
2t = [c+m]x
ameri©a
song of arches
tracks 20 and 21: | “Murder Incorporated” and “Blind Willie McTell”
ROUND MIDNIGHT
take it home
storyville
impunity (train)
days between stations
shadowborn
lonely street
dwell
the forsaken song
terrace
lullaby
twilight song
Malik
strain
get ready
the song in the dark
the corrupted song
the tattered song
lunacy
the singular song
paternity
song of reckoning
the faithless song
the song that may or may not be true
tracks 22 and 23: | “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted”
tracks 24 and 25: | “Oh Shenandoah” and “O Souverain”
the song that starts all over again
An Inadequate Acknowledgment
About the Author
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