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Index
Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
1. Object
Within the Context of No Context (excerpt)
Count Your Losses
The Inheritance That Got Away
Wallet
2. Prose Poem
The Poet’s Husband
Girl
Stripper
The Old Dictionary
Desperate Talk
3. Image Becomes Metaphor
Riding the Whip
Pretty Ice
4. Lovers’ Quarrel
Adultery
Sweethearts
Slave
In the Animal Shelter
The Orphan Lamb
5. Happiness
20/20
Weekend
6. Decades
In the Fifties
My 1980s
The Wretched Seventies
Brunch
7. Collage
Son of Mr. Green Jeans
Creation
8. Trick Story
Primary Sources
Class Notes
Subtotals
Life Story
Acknowledgments
9. Criticism as Autobiography
Of Jackie Onassis and the Stargazer in Every Heart
Angles in America
10. Complicity
Shooting an Elephant
One Nation, Under the Weather
11. Guilty Elegy
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Murderers
A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease
Morning News
12. Parable
The Story of an Hour
The School
Adams
Donor
You Can’t See Dogs on the Radio
Journal (excerpt)
13. Metaphysical Contemplation
This Is the Life
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