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Contents

  Title Page

  Note to Reader

  Dedication

1  Built for It

2  This Is Our American America Here is Your Son

3  Arrangements

4  Questions Are an Attribute of God

5  The Disaster

6  Night People

7  What We’re Trying to Do Is Create a Community of Dreamers

8  We Look Forward to Seeing You Again Soon

9  It All Lights Up

10  Possibility of Repair

11  The Messengers Come When You Are Sitting at the Table

12  Blue Water Navy

13  Air Rights

14  I Want to Save This Whale

15  Turned Back the Disaster Comes Back

16  Cold Comfort

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1  Nothing Good Gets Away

2  Lake Effect

3  Imply a Future

4  My Life Blew Upon

5  A Hundred Thousand Questions Why

6  Herd Flock Hive

7  Waiting for You to Speak I Mouth the Words

8  Fall Back Position

9  Good Deeds Undone

10  We Mourn the End by Applauding

11  Wrong Question

12  Private Dick

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1  The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance

2  It’s Another Deadly Day

3  Sad Promotion

4  To the Left of Boom

5  Space Race

6  Now Lead Me Out of This Story, Spirit

7  A Simple Lesson on the Buried Spirit

8  Other Things in View

9  The Invention of Perspective

10  A Crucial Error

11  Essay Means to Try

12  Despair Fire

13  Every Pastoral Is an Elegy

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1  A Poetics of Space

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1  Where the Use of Cannon Is Impractical

2  Shot Through

3  So Long

4  Achilles Really Loved That Girl

5  Run Every Race As If It’s Your Last

6  Consider Yourselves All “Debbie”

7  Ready Regret

8  Your Country Needs You

9  Charismatic Megafauna

10  Pioneer Me

11  Then They Ate Their Horses

12  The Canary’s Job Is to Die

13  The Symptom Pool

14  People Are Hanged Curtains Are Hung

15  Unknown Beloved

16  Blue Stragglers

17  Cinders Of

  About the Author

  Books by Lisa Olstein

  Notes

  Acknowledgments

  Copyright

  Special Thanks