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The Opposite

  • Neil Surkan
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Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. I
  4. Directive 3
  5. The Branch-Breaker 4
  6. Bleed 6
  7. The Opening of the Field 7
  8. Laughter = Ipecac 8
  9. Development 10
  10. The Humans 12
  11. Aunts 13
  12. Goat 14
  13. Scorsese Teaches His Kid to Crosshatch 15
  14. Under the Skin 17
  15. Ars Poetica 18
  16. Flash 19
  17. Saltspring Ferry 20
  18. On High 21
  19. II
  20. Pelt 25
  21. There Was Light 26
  22. Half-Pastoral 27
  23. Other Side of the Orchard 28
  24. Brute 29
  25. Rock Garden 30
  26. Cold Pastoral 31
  27. In Plain Sight 32
  28. Micro-Gothic 33
  29. Low Tidings 34
  30. The Bottom of the Sea 35
  31. Resolution 36
  32. Very Rare 37
  33. Extra-Real 38
  34. Bucolic 39
  35. Cone, Twig, Camel 40
  36. III
  37. Pre-Election 43
  38. The Opposite 45
  39. Here Comes Some Beauty 48
  40. Day Off 49
  41. Vesper 50
  42. Give 52
  43. No Charge 53
  44. Teardown 54
  45. Opportunistic Mystic 56
  46. Concentrate 57
  47. White on White 58
  48. Snap 59
  49. Better to Die of Too Much 60
  50. Super, Natural 62
  51. Franciscana, Santa Teresita 63
  52. Blast Radius 64
  53. Apology 73
  54. No Chaser 76
  55. IV
  56. More Truly and More Strange 79
  57. Decreation 80
  58. Never Changes to Stop 81
  59. Fawn 82
  60. Unforgetting 83
  61. Deism, Penticton 84
  62. On Comfort 85
  63. The Most Intimate 86
  64. Washington 87
  65. Verges, Now and Forever 88
  66. On High (II) 99
  67. Notes 101
  68. Acknowledgments 103
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773555457-033

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. I
  4. Directive 3
  5. The Branch-Breaker 4
  6. Bleed 6
  7. The Opening of the Field 7
  8. Laughter = Ipecac 8
  9. Development 10
  10. The Humans 12
  11. Aunts 13
  12. Goat 14
  13. Scorsese Teaches His Kid to Crosshatch 15
  14. Under the Skin 17
  15. Ars Poetica 18
  16. Flash 19
  17. Saltspring Ferry 20
  18. On High 21
  19. II
  20. Pelt 25
  21. There Was Light 26
  22. Half-Pastoral 27
  23. Other Side of the Orchard 28
  24. Brute 29
  25. Rock Garden 30
  26. Cold Pastoral 31
  27. In Plain Sight 32
  28. Micro-Gothic 33
  29. Low Tidings 34
  30. The Bottom of the Sea 35
  31. Resolution 36
  32. Very Rare 37
  33. Extra-Real 38
  34. Bucolic 39
  35. Cone, Twig, Camel 40
  36. III
  37. Pre-Election 43
  38. The Opposite 45
  39. Here Comes Some Beauty 48
  40. Day Off 49
  41. Vesper 50
  42. Give 52
  43. No Charge 53
  44. Teardown 54
  45. Opportunistic Mystic 56
  46. Concentrate 57
  47. White on White 58
  48. Snap 59
  49. Better to Die of Too Much 60
  50. Super, Natural 62
  51. Franciscana, Santa Teresita 63
  52. Blast Radius 64
  53. Apology 73
  54. No Chaser 76
  55. IV
  56. More Truly and More Strange 79
  57. Decreation 80
  58. Never Changes to Stop 81
  59. Fawn 82
  60. Unforgetting 83
  61. Deism, Penticton 84
  62. On Comfort 85
  63. The Most Intimate 86
  64. Washington 87
  65. Verges, Now and Forever 88
  66. On High (II) 99
  67. Notes 101
  68. Acknowledgments 103
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