Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. Con/Verge
4. Crossing 3
5. How Borders Are Built 4
6. Bibbed in Paisley He Reads Žižek Instead 5
7. Dear Angel, 6
8. Sunday Mornings 8
9. The Corner Store Clerk Says Her Name Was Ofelia 9
10. After I Read Your Obituary 10
11. Photos Found on a Dead Man’s Phone 11
12. Because They Lack Country 12
13. Angel & I 14
14. Broken Initials 15
15. In a Half-Full Bathtub 16
16. I Light the House on Fire and Lie Down 17
17. Notes on Ciudad Juárez, as a Play 18
18. The Verging Cities Watch Me 19
19. When the Desert Made Us Visible 20
20. Di/Verge
21. Succulence 23
22. It’s the Heat That Wakes Us 24
23. Woman Found Near Sunland Park Mall 25
24. A Torero’s Daughter is Killed 26
25. La Mariscal Ciudad Juárez, México 27
26. Placement 28
27. A Place to Hide the Body 30
28. Guerrero Pears 31
29. The Archeologist Came to Hunt Trilobites 32
30. In a Dust Storm 33
31. Mouth in My Kitchen 34
32. Angel Reassures Me I Have Escaped the Verging Cities 35
33. A Mass Grave Washed 36
34. When the Desert Made Us Invisible 37
35. Re/Merge
36. Epithalamia 41
37. Verge
38. Angels Fall from the Sky to El Paso, Texas 51
39. The City is a Body Swallowed 53
40. A Journalist’s Field Notes on the Kentucky Club 54
41. Girl Curled Over a Bar Stool 56
42. The Verging cities 57
43. The City is a Body Broken 60
44. In the Morning I Feel Angel’s Breath 61
45. Because You Don’t Have a Social Security Number 62
46. Angel and I are Both Great Pretenders, 63
47. Like Victorian Women 64
48. Your Mouth is Full 65
49. The Sun That Tends to Fields of Grain Burns 66
50. Endnotes on Ciudad Juárez 67
51. How Borders Collapse 68
52. Acknowledgments 70