Scrap Iron.

Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Milking the Wasted Land -- Burning Down the Camper -- Jersey Devil -- His Grandmother as a Wind Chime -- Scrap Iron -- Bivalve, Cumberland County -- On Peeling Skin -- Midnight Shift -- Our Lady of Mount Carmel -- The Pecking Order -- Standing in the Atlantic Ocean with Tesla's Pigeon -- Palace Depression -- Part II: Volleying across the Showery Dark -- So Intricate, So Inconceivably Complex -- On Thunderstorms -- Field Lessons -- Working First Shift at the Progresso Soups Factory -- The Island Meditations -- Part III: Defending the Entrance to the Hereafter -- A Bridge is Like a Tongue -- The Same Idea -- Hounds -- On Garages -- Letter about My Last Night in Carbondale, Illinois -- Seven Places I Have Found My Grandmother in the Last Six Years -- Conversion -- Blackrock Diving Tower -- Turkey Point -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

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