Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Poetry, Bureaucracy, and the Social Order 15
5. 2. Escribano Culture and Socio-professional Contiguity 33
6. 3. Pervasive Papers 59
7. 4. The Hands Have It 77
8. 5. Papers Unite 92
9. 6. Paper Politics 123
10. 7. Books as Memory 148
11. 8. Arranging the Compilation 164
12. 9. The Book of Fragments 187
13. Conclusion 214
14. Notes 219
15. References 269
16. Index 321
17. Backmatter 333