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  1. Cover
  2. PRAISE FOR
  3. Dedication
  4. ONE
  5. TWO GROUPS
  6. FACTS
  7. WORK
  8. A SYLLABUS
  9. ANOTHER SYLLABUS
  10. SUBSTITUTIONS
  11. MORE SUBSTITUTIONS
  12. TRIANGULATION
  13. TAXONOMIES
  14. THE SEASONS CHANGE
  15. TWO
  16. THE NEWS REPORTS
  17. RESEARCH
  18. THE NEWS REPORTS
  19. TWO LETTERS
  20. A DIAGRAM
  21. A COPIED PARAGRAPH
  22. THE REARRANGING UNIVERSE
  23. WHO WE ARE
  24. THE UNNAMED ELEMENTS
  25. POSES
  26. THE NEWS REPORTS
  27. CASTING
  28. AN INSTABILITY
  29. A FANTASY
  30. PEAK / END
  31. WOUNDS
  32. THE NEWS REPORTS
  33. FLUCTUATIONS
  34. HEAT
  35. QUESTIONS FOR A CLERK
  36. THE NEWS REPORTS
  37. THE ACTUAL NEWS
  38. GASLIGHTS
  39. THREE
  40. THE NEWS REPORTS (STRANDED PEOPLE SPREADSHEET)
  41. NAMES
  42. POSTCARD FROM S #1
  43. THE NEWS REPORTS (LIVEBLOG)
  44. POSTCARD FROM S #2
  45. THE NEWS REPORTS (FEED)
  46. POSTCARD FROM S #3
  47. RESPONSE
  48. WHAT WE WEREN’T DOING
  49. THE NEWS REPORTS
  50. THE MIDDLE PERIOD
  51. FOUR
  52. &
  53. &
  54. &
  55. &
  56. &
  57. THE NEWS REPORTS
  58. &
  59. A LONG NIGHT
  60. FIRST FIGURE
  61. SECOND FIGURE
  62. THIRD FIGURE
  63. FOURTH FIGURE
  64. FIFTH FIGURE
  65. SIXTH FIGURE
  66. SEVENTH FIGURE
  67. EIGHTH FIGURE
  68. NINTH FIGURE
  69. TENTH FIGURE
  70. ELEVENTH, TWELFTH, AND THIRTEENTH FIGURES
  71. FOURTEENTH FIGURE
  72. FIFTEENTH FIGURE
  73. SIXTEENTH FIGURE
  74. SEVENTEENTH FIGURE
  75. THE FIELD
  76. FIVE
  77. AN ORIENTATION
  78. ANOTHER ORIENTATION
  79. A DRIVE
  80. ASPECTS OF QUESTIONING
  81. SIGNS
  82. THE ENTIRE WORLD REVOLVES IN YOUR MIND
  83. SELF-REPAIR CAGE
  84. COFFEE
  85. FIGURE EIGHTEEN
  86. WAITING
  87. QUESTIONS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT UNDERLYING ISSUES
  88. FIGURE NINETEEN
  89. THE NEIGHBORING TOWN
  90. TWO GROUPS INTRODUCING THEMSELVES
  91. E BRIEFLY COMMANDEERS THE NARRATIVE
  92. THE INTRODUCTIONS CONTINUED
  93. WHAT IS AND ISN’T PREDICTABLE
  94. PABLO SENDS A POSTCARD
  95. MARINA TAKES A BREAK
  96. THE NEWS REPORTS
  97. LOSSES
  98. AUTOECIOUS END-STOPPED TANKA
  99. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  100. FUNDER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  101. THE PUBLISHER’S CIRCLE OF COFFEE HOUSE PRESS
  102. About the Author

Thanks to all the publications referenced within these pages, and to those who wrote, translated, edited, published, and let me know about them. The quotes on p.16 are from Three Dialogues on Knowledge by Paul Feyerabend (Wiley-Blackwell, 1991). The quote on pp. 21–22 is from “Intuitionism in the Philosophy of Mathematics” by Rosalie Imhoff (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, fall 2020 edition). The book on p. 33 is The Guérillères by Monique Wittig, translated by David Le Vay (Picador, 1972). The book on p. 35 is Intimacy by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander (Avon, 1938). The book on p. 39 is A Dialogue on Love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Beacon Press, 1999). The book on p. 45 is G by John Berger (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972). The book on p. 54 is Restaurant Samsara by Daniel Owen (Furniture Press, 2018). The quote on p. 62 is from the essay “Freedom” by D. W. Winnicott. The book on p. 69 is Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed, narrated by Larissa Gallagher (Duke University Press, 2017). The book on pp. 75–76 is Signs Preceding the End ofthe World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman (And Other Stories, 2015). The language on pp. 94–96 and 98 is adapted from the archive of the 24/7 liveblog hosted and run by the Watershed Post and staffed in part by community volunteers, including myself, to provide information to residents of Delaware County, NY, and surrounding counties affected by Tropical Cyclone Irene in August 2011. The book on pp. 102–103 is The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) by Herman Hesse, translated by Richard and Clara Winston (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1943). The book on p. 117 is The Desert by Brandon Shimoda (The Song Cave, 2018). The language in “Aspects of Questioning” on p. 150 is taken from “Mediation Manual” (© Mediation Manual 1999 revised edition, Wing; Mediation Manual © 1991 Wing and Marden-Cruz) and used by permission. Though this language and some ideas about mediation were directly inspired by a 2016 training in mediation with a social justice perspective led by Deepika Marya and Leah Wing, interpretations of that material are my own and don’t necessarily reflect the specifics of Marya and Wing’s training. The artist’s book on p. 153 is As you sow so you reap by Lisa Anne Auerbach (Private risograph edition, 2022). An earlier version of the opening of this book was published under the title “Love, Anti- (notes toward)” online at Black Sun Lit (April 11, 2018). Thanks to Jared Daniel Fagen. The text from the “postcards” on pp. 93, 97, and 99 is taken from my poem “Draft (September 29, 2016),” which begins with a line by Simone White. “Draft” was previously published online by the Brooklyn Rail. Thanks to Simone and to Anselm Berrigan.

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