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Chapters (25)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Valley, Uncanny
  4. The Hospitality of Strangers
  5. One Hundred Days in the Cave
  6. The Other Asterion, or, The Minotaur’s Sacrifice (A Story)
  7. Exactly Like You
  8. Harness
  9. Orphan: The Plural Form
  10. The Error of Blood Relation
  11. I Will Make an Example
  12. The Limit Case
  13. In the Other Future
  14. Like a Second Person inside Us
  15. Autoclonography
  16. Unalloyed
  17. Paradise
  18. Replication
  19. My Singularity
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Illustration Credits
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Funder Acknowledgments
  25. About the Author

Enormous gratitude to Coffee House Press publisher Chris Fischbach, mega-superstars Carla Valadez, Erika Stevens, Amelia Foster, Caroline Casey, Julie Strand, Timothy Otte, and everyone in the CHP community.

Thank you, Karl Engebretson, for the marvelous cover.

Thank you, McKnight Foundation and judge Nikky Finney, for the generous grant that helped me finish this book. Thank you to the Loft Literary Center and Bao Phi for your expert facilitation and warm support.

Thank you to my myriad fellow poets near and far, who provide treasured camaraderie as well as gates to the sublime. You are paradise.

Deep appreciation to great friend and boundless spirit, thomas carlson.

Beloved Jae and Ty, the future.

Coffee House Press began as a small letterpress operation in 1972 and has grown into an internationally renowned nonprofit publisher of literary fiction, essay, poetry, and other work that doesn’t fit neatly into genre categories.

Coffee House is both a publisher and an arts organization. Through our Books in Action program and publications, we’ve become interdisciplinary collaborators and incubators for new work and audience experiences. Our vision for the future is one where a publisher is a catalyst and connector.

Funder Acknowledgments

Funder Acknowledgments

Coffee House Press is an internationally renowned independent book publisher and arts nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN; through its literary publications and Books in Action program, Coffee House acts as a catalyst and connector—between authors and readers, ideas and resources, creativity and community, inspiration and action.

Coffee House Press books are made possible through the generous support of grants and donations from corporate giving programs, state and federal support, family foundations, and the many individuals who believe in the transformational power of literature. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to the legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. Coffee House also receives major operating support from the Amazon Literary Partnership, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, Target, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). TO find out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

Coffee House Press receives additional support from the Alexander Family Foundation; the Archer Bondarenko Munificence Fund; the Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation; the David & Mary Anderson Family Foundation; the Buuck Family Foundation; the Carolyn Foundation; the Dorsey & Whitney Foundation; Dorsey & Whitney LLP; the Knight Foundation; the Rehael Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation; the Matching Grant Program Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation; the Schwab Charitable Fund; Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.; the Scott Family Foundation; the us Bank Foundation; VSA Minnesota for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council; the Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation; and the Woessner Freeman Family Foundation in honor of Allan Kornblum.

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