What We Did While We Made More Guns.

Intro -- Contents -- What Those Who Qualify Receive -- Property -- Elegy for a First Husband, Cause of Death Unknown -- What Those Who Qualify Receive -- Penny Impromptu -- National Public Radio -- L.A.P.D. -- What We Did While We Made More Guns -- Word as Early Diagnosis -- Girl -- Fixx/Plot -- The Inside World -- Cleaning Padihershef, Who Worked in the Necropolis of Thebes -- Skinned Aces -- Post-Soviet Garden, Kaliningrad -- "Income Gap Widens as Jobs Increase" -- What I Worry about at Night Is Not What I Worry about in the Morning -- Pension -- Election Noir -- Poem for the Moment Before Bad News -- Poem for My Father -- Skinned Aces -- Little Shits -- Welles after Kane -- The Old Soul -- No, No-I'm Happy for You -- Skin and Bones -- Skin -- Bones -- Pension Cut -- Tenderness -- Pleasure -- Tongue Stud -- Privacy (Admit One) -- Parents -- Easter Rag -- The New Vice President -- August Explanation, Presidential Campaign, 2016 -- Pension Cut -- To One Who Is Forgotten -- Still -- Saint Yes &amp -- No -- Are You Here -- Face -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

The poems in What We Did While We Made More Guns investigate the place where economic failure meets a widening acculturation of violence--a kind of Great Acceleration of soul extinction set in this spectacularly uneasy moment in American history.

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