How to respond to hostility

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Metro
4. Bloor-Yonge 3
5. The Ron from bottom up 6
6. If homelessness is a sandwich, our culture of silence is the bread 8
7. All the friends at the party 9
8. The Huldufólk meet Coyote 10
9. The violent orange hours 11
10. This falls deeper than rocks 13
11. Just over the mountain from Yaqui, Arizona 14
12. Invaders: Mystery Space Riders or, An ode to Alan Kurdi 15
13. Of course you do find spicy bits 17
14. Colonialism for dummies 19
15. Northwestern
16. Facing Fort William's Orphanage 23
17. Deciduous with answers 25
18. Spore prints 26
19. Probable cause misjudgment of altitude 27
20. How to pluck pheasant 29
21. How to clean walleye 31
22. How to pick blueberries 33
23. Today the twelve gauge 35
24. The fox 36
25. In the least desired corner 37
26. How to make a skull from the head of a bear delivered Tuesday in a grocery bag to the afternoon office meeting 38
27. All it takes is an artist and a knife 39
28. The boreal 41
29. Note to the people using old needles stolen from a public bathroom 42
30. Valhalla 43
31. This isn't about me or a title 44
32. Sioux Lookout
33. A synonym for raft is foundation 47
34. Beyond ear but open 48
35. Lunch meeting like spruce grouse 49
36. How to stay alive on the streets of Sioux Lookout 50
37. A Kingfisher named Bear 51
38. Chiffon unfinished 52
39. How to respond to hostility 54
40. Another death at the Learning Centre 56
41. Dermis to gold 57
42. Even if the child's lost, mothers never lose the title 59
43. It's no real pleasure in life or, How to view the kids at night 60
44. Bear paw and beast 61
45. How to write a poem about dead children 62
46. Barbless 63
47. How to fly home 64
48. None have bled on these streets more than Jim 65
49. Indivisible by all the rips 66
50. My prose poem from inside the precinct 67
51. This cannot be homage in verse 69
52. Re ember 71
53. Red Lake 23 73
54. The appropriate views of morning 74
55. Dysmorphia 75
56. In a small northern town 76
57. Lines on Larae leaving 78
58. To the boy pounding on our back door at midnight 79
59. To the man stabbed last week behind my back fence 81
60. Sometimes the storm wins 83
61. Pottery, an impossibility 86
62. Note to Readers 89
63. Notes 91
64. Acknowledgments 93