Cover; Title Page; Note to the Reader; Dedication; Contents; Origins of Violence; Part I; Threshold Gods; Rehearsal; Everything Is Restored; Death of a Child; The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around; Troubles; Spring; Encyclopedia of the Dead; Part II; The Sleeping Pig; The Traveling Line; The Belt; Notes on Pigs; Obstacles to Handling; Ears; The Farrowing Crate; Portrait of a Pig as a Bird; One-Way Gate; The Veld; Influence; Vision; First Day of Lent; The River; Vaudeville; Westward Expansion; Part III; New World; The Cave; Sword-Swallower; The Drowning; Winter Variations; Reprieve
The Dream of ReasonSelf-Portrait; The Miniature Bed; Harvest; Sonnet for Lost Teeth; Talisman; On Waking; Eros; A Childhood; Revelation; Spring; Mnemonic; Intelligence; Easter; Notes; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Copyright; Special thanks
Summary
This stunning debut collection introduces a poetic voice marked by concision, focus, and image-driven strangeness that haunts a midwestern landscape
