Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. HE LIKED TO SAY THAT THIS LOVE WAS THE RESULT OF A CLINICAL ERROR xi
4. Curiosities (My Heart Makes My Head Swim) 1
5. Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor) 14
6. The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound 35
7. Consciousness (Feeling like, Feeling like This) 58
8. Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down 71
9. No Place, Unknown, Undetermined 75
10. Notes 76
11. Black Ecologies. Coral Cities. Catch a Wave 77
12. Charmaine’s Wire 78
13. Polycarbonate, Aluminum (Gold), and Lacquer 79
14. Black Children 80
15. Telephone Listing 81
16. Failure (My Head Was Full of Misty Fumes of Doubt) 82
17. The Kick Drum Is the Fault 101
18. (Zong) Bad Made Measure 104
19. I Got Life/Rebellion Invention Groove 130
20. (I Entered the Lists) 147
21. Dear Science 165
22. Notes and Reminders 168
23. STORYTELLERS 172
24. DIEGESES AND BEARINGS 190