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Index
Cover
By Cristina Rivera Garza
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Epigraph
Part I: The Castrated Men
Chapter 1: What I Believed I Said
Chapter 2: My First Body
Chapter 3: The Poetry Field of Action
Chapter 4: Victim Is Always Feminine
Chapter 5: The Suspectress
Chapter 6: I and Who I Was
Chapter 7: How to Read Poetry
Chapter 8: All the Fields All the Battles
Chapter 9: The Adjective That Cuts
Chapter 10: The Tabloid Journalist
Chapter 11: The Poem Castrated by Its Own Language
Chapter 12: The Bearded Woman
Chapter 13: Where Once a Boy and a Girl Made Love…
Chapter 14: Denotative Desire
Chapter 15: Authorship
Chapter 16: Clear Light
Chapter 17: I Didn’t Try to Stop
Chapter 18: Messages under the Door
Part II: The Traveler with an Emptied Glass
Chapter 19: Message No. 2
Chapter 20: Message No. 3
Chapter 21: Message No. 4
Chapter 22: Message No. 5
Chapter 23: Message No. 6
Chapter 24: Message No. 7
Chapter 25: Message No. 8
Chapter 26: Message No. 9
Chapter 27: Message No. 10
Chapter 28: Message No. 11
Chapter 29: Message No. 12
Part III: The Detective’s Mind
Chapter 30: What Do You Need to Kill a Man?
Chapter 31: Defeat / Wring Out / Throw Away
Chapter 32: The Spectator Must Be Here and Now
Chapter 33: We’re All in the Loop Here
Chapter 34: You’ll Never Find Anything Strange Here, Miss
Chapter 35: The Spectator
Chapter 36: The Tribute
Chapter 37: Sensations of Exodus
Chapter 38: In a Field, and with the Help of Two Mirrors, I Buried a Sunbeam in the Earth
Chapter 39: It Took Its Toll, the Abandonment He Confined Me To
Chapter 40: It Has to Fall, Eventually
Chapter 41: Penis Envy
Chapter 42: An Area Enclosed by a Circle
Chapter 43: The Fetus of a Woman in the Belly of a Bed
Chapter 44: Valerio’s Report
Chapter 45: Male Friendships
Chapter 46: No Talent Whatsoever
Chapter 47: It’s Like Being Swallowed by a Dead Man
Chapter 48: What She Shouldn’t
Chapter 49: Gargoyle in the Middle of the Square
Chapter 50: She Vehemently Claims
Part IV: The Longing for Prose
Chapter 51: The Prose of My Terrifying Language
Chapter 52: What Is She Talking about When She Talks about Prose?
Chapter 53: The Refuge Is a Work in the Shape of a Dwelling
Chapter 54: It’s as if I Had Discovered the Intolerable and Impossible Thing about Poetry
Chapter 55: Coda
Part V: Valerio’s True Reports
Chapter 56: Death’s Business Is to Strip
Chapter 57: Can a Poem Take the Place of a Dog’s Piss?
Chapter 58: The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Chapter 59: I’m Your Equal
Chapter 60: Women and Children Die, Too
Part VI: Grildrig
Chapter 61: I Can Take Off My Pants, if You Like
Chapter 62: The Ice on the Other Side of the Window
Chapter 63: So Why Did You Think of That?
Chapter 64: Relplum Scalcath
Chapter 65: The Witness
Chapter 66: A Jar of Formaldehyde / A Jar of Jam / A Sample
Chapter 67: Childhood Is the Key
Chapter 68: It Could Have Been You
Chapter 69: Fine Restraints
Chapter 70: Accept This Love I Ask For
Chapter 71: The Adjective That Cuts
Chapter 72: This Is What People Do Alone in Their Lives
Chapter 73: If It Had Happened
Chapter 74: Watching Her Sleep
Part VII: Death Takes Me
Chapter 75: The Epigraph
Chapter 76: The Crossed-Out Title
Chapter 77: Certain Luxuries
Chapter 78: This Wound (Which Is a Wounded Word)
Chapter 79: Front Page
Chapter 80: Early Inquiries
Chapter 81: The Tabloid Journalist and Death: A List
Chapter 82: Secondary Inquiries
Chapter 83: Who the Hell Is Speaking?
Chapter 84: The Tabloid Journalist and Death: Another List
Chapter 85: The Female Imagination
Chapter 86: The Suspicion
Chapter 87: Autopsy
Chapter 88: The Smell of Blood
Chapter 89: I’m Afraid of Winter Afraid It Will Go Away
Chapter 90: Dimensions
Chapter 91: Copyist Deeds against the Dead
Chapter 92: Credits the Origins of the Performing Arts
Chapter 93: You’ll Be Sorry XIV a Book for Me
Part VIII: Don’t Tell Anyone We’re Here
Chapter 94: The Crushing Process
Chapter 95: An Area Closed Off by a Circle
Chapter 96: Prey to the Question: Who Is Killing Me? Whom Am I Giving Myself to Kill?
Chapter 97: You Have No Right to Know Anything about the Dead
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About the Author
About the Translators
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