ways to love and leave you

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. anthrosphere 1
4. attention 4
5. the animal question 5
6. sestina for the snake in a man-made lake 6
7. ways to love and leave you 8
8. social hour vole 9
9. when we say they 10
10. hunt 11
11. unseasonable 12
12. chemical peel 13
13. taxidermy 14
14. heathkit tv 1980 15
15. my dad’s socially distant heart surgery 16
16. his meds 17
17. arrhythmia 18
18. feel it if 19
19. these days i keep falling 20
20. back 21
21. estrangement 23
22. poem on returning (by he zhizhang) 25
23. on the eve of government exams to secretary zhang (by zhu qingyu) 26
24. climbing white stork tower (by wang zhihuan) 27
25. halfway (by li bai) 28
26. drinking alone under the moon (by li bai) 29
27. snapshots of what’s called for 30
28. some girls 32
29. dressing 33
30. let me be 35
31. vanity 36
32. a surgeon sawed me open, sewed me up 37
33. double body, hot lasagna 39
34. taunting the turkey vultures with love 40
35. tiny staples 41
36. fear 42
37. chance, chicago 43
38. sunset/sonnet 44
39. airplane landscape, 1992, true story 45
40. landing 46
41. dream view from above 47
42. your death 48
43. tenacity 49
44. acknowledgments 51