Chapters (43)
- Cover
- Note to the Reader
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Still Life
- Hum of the Machine God
- Athazagoraphobia: Fear of Being Ignored
- How to Disappear Completely
- Man Matching Description
- The Sky, Now Black with Birds
- Looks Like a Boy
- A Detroit Hum Ending with Bones
- On Metal
- Masticated Light
- On Gentleness
- Chionophobia: Fear of Snow
- The Boy Who Bathes the Dead
- Thalassophobia: Fear of the Sea
- Coming Back for You
- Hum of the Machinist’s Lover
- Hum for the Hammer
- Neat
- How to Get Your Gun Safely Out of Your Mouth
- And Even the Living Are Lost
- Aichmophobia: Fear of Needles
- I Do Have a Seam
- Triage
- The Man Who Paints Mountains and Helicopters
- Hum for the Stone
- The Girl Who Builds Rockets from Bricks
- Mechanophobia: Fear of Machines
- Pomegranate Means Grenade
- The God Engine
- Paper Frog on Spring
- Thinking Like a Split Melon
- If They Hand Your Remains to Your Sister in a Chinese Takeout Box
- Paper Crane on Letting Go
- Hum for the Bolt
- Paper Tiger to Wind
- Macrophobia: Fear of Waiting
- The Hum of Zug Island
- Ask What I’ve Been
- About the Author
ALICE JAMES BOOKS has been publishing poetry since 1973. The press was founded in Boston, Massachusetts as a cooperative wherein authors performed the day-to-day undertakings of the press. This collaborative element remains viable even today, as authors who publish with the press are also invited to become members of the editorial board and participate in editorial decisions at the press. The editorial board selects manuscripts for publication via the press’s annual, national competition, the Alice James Award. Alice James Books seeks to support women writers and was named for Alice James, sister to William and Henry, whose extraordinary gift for writing went unrecognized during her lifetime.
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