Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Smoke Circles 1
5. Burnout 2
6. Suspended Forever 4
7. A Fishy Smell 12
8. Not Wan 16
9. Burial 17
10. Like a Precious Gem 23
11. Yakandanda 25
12. The Body Has a Mind of Its Own 31
13. White Man 41
14. Translation (a gift of opium) 45
15. No Substitute 48
16. Seasickness 50
17. Screaming 62
18. To Bubble and Rumble (like an elephant) 64
19. Memory Missiles 72
20. A Smoky Edifice (implosion) 76
21. Babies or Booze (metonymy) 79
22. Bombs or Bums (metaphor) 81
23. Traced by (a slight sense of) Bitterness 88
24. Instead of a Lobotomy (a cigarette) 94
25. To Remember (to find yourself in fragments) 98
26. To Forget 104
27. Chaos 109
28. Smoko 110
29. Black Hole Spinning (the physics of writing) 114
30. Healthy 118
31. Strange Attractors 120
32. A Lycanthropic Age (the writing cure) 124
33. A Boil About to Burst (the talking cure) 126
34. Voicing 131
35. Mouthing 132
36. Appetite 134
37. Lions Don't Smoke 140
38. Poison 145
39. Fog Drinking 147
40. Kettle Logic (the art of separation) 155
41. I Done a Lotta Bad Things 161
42. The Smoking Room 163
43. Kindness (or, the werewolf comes home) 167
44. Those Places in the Body That Have No Language Either 168
45. Anticipation (a crevice opening up) 175
46. Habit 176
47. Panic 178
48. A Sleeping Problem 179
49. Open Arms 196
50. Fire Escape 197
51. Lighting Up 200
52. Unspooling 202
53. Demons 206
54. Possessed 208
55. Smoking Landscape 215
56. Life-Giving A1ist 221
57. In Transit 226
58. Notes 227
59. Glossary 237