Perennial

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FOREWORD ix
4. Los ing Our Milk Teeth 1
5. Bridg es All Over the Room 2
6. My Brother, Hoarding 3
7. How the Body Moves 4
8. Throwing the Proper Tantrums 6
9. XVIII^E Arrondissement 7
10. Immolate 8
11. Cutlass Ciera 10
12. Kitten 11
13. My Armamentarium 12
14. Is It the Sea You Hear in Me ? 13
15. Good Morning, Mediocrity 14
16. Meet the Author 15
17. Night Falling, Czechoslovakia 16
18. Edison’s Medicine 17
19. Why I Burned Down Namdaemun Gate 18
20. High Hopes, Bad Hab its 20
21. Turkish Get-Ups 21
22. Feeding Peeping Tom 22
23. Scrotum and Bone 23
24. The Year of Our Como rbidity 24
25. The Princess of Creeping 25
26. Reading Sexton in Phuket 26
27. Bulb 27
28. Murmur 28
29. The Birth of No 29
30. Midnight at Orca Cannery 30
31. Letter from the Psych Ward, Hospital Kashenko 31
32. My Mittelschmer 33
33. Arch on a Rung 34
34. This Is Not a Pipe 35
35. Song of a Misanthrope 36
36. Lunatic Years 37
37. Halloween in the Tank 38
38. Incommunicado 39
39. From The Book of Attacks 40
40. Songs in Kiswahili 41
41. Break in the Chain 42
42. Flatline 43
43. How I Learned That Everyone Is Ridiculous 44
44. Where Are You , Gravity? 45
45. Everyone is Eviscerated 46
46. Liminal 47
47. Memory as Diary 48
48. Take the Late Flight 49
49. On Being Orphaned 50
50. After Rumi’s Birdwings 51
51. Crave 52
52. What Flickers 53
53. Perennial 54
54. Rank Bitch 55
55. Dad’s Last Entrechat 56
56. Crushings 57
57. Bizarre Part 58
58. On Being Born 59
59. Climbing 60
60. Not Having Them 61
61. The Linger Museum 62
62. My Trifecta of Offenses 63
63. With a Whimper 64
64. Acknowledgments 65
65. About the Author 67