Primitive Mentor.

Intro -- Contents -- Dear Reader -- 1. -- What Form after Death -- Disappearing Ink -- Washing in Cold Water -- Self Search -- The Great Loneliness -- Gruss -- Look at Quintillions Ripen'd and Look at Quintillions Green -- Mannerist -- My Outlook on Life -- Enter Fortinbras -- Psalm -- 2. -- Food Plain -- Desert Ode -- Liverwurst -- Wheelchair Race -- Revolutions Tend toward Orthodoxy -- Gawker -- From the Get-Go -- Admissions Policy -- Sex with Strangers -- Poem on a Them by Tony Hoagland -- Force of Rabbit -- Briar -- 3. -- You -- Learning to Live with Bliss -- Triage -- Fire Ode -- Ash Ode -- Lots of Questions -- Earth Science Lab Partner -- Private Waterfall -- Lives of the Primitives -- Pelt -- Lives of the Orphans -- Sparkler -- An Orgasm Is a Spaceship -- Our Kind of People -- My Itty Void -- Procession -- 4. -- Half Story Half-Life -- The Hour Light Streams through the House -- Scatteration -- Acorn Hitting a Tin Roof -- The Pure Intention of the Honest -- Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus -- Like My Older Sister -- Blue Limbo -- Rose Prick -- Oddly Folded Bird -- Grave Tour -- Exit Exam -- Afterward (Little Evening Sermon) -- Acknowledgments.

The ninth collection for this Pulitzer Prize finalist, who remains as entertaining, imaginative and inventive as ever.

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