Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- I. -- Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 -- Trying to Speak -- Plantation -- Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing -- Massa Confusa -- Self-Portrait in Black and White -- On This Hard Bench -- Bronze Parrot -- Watermark -- Briefs -- Soho (London) -- Dirty Glass -- Origin -- II. -- Wanting to be White -- Tippu Tip on his Deathbed in Stone Town -- Homosexuality -- Little Saviors -- Eunuch -- Persona Non Grata -- Market -- Ticino -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Lower the Pitch of your Suffering -- Where If Not Here -- Lake Zürich -- Saint-Tropez -- Unbearable White -- Passing -- III. -- Clean Slate -- The Most Opaque Sands Make for the Clearest Glass -- At L'Express French Bistro My White Father Kisses My Black Mother Then Calls the Waiter a Nigger -- Single File -- Eunuch (Pre-) -- Auction / Roman Girl -- Asmar -- Song -- Where If Not Here (II) -- Preface -- Landswept -- Ligament -- Aqua -- As the Formless within Takes Shape We Fail Again -- In Prospect -- Haratin Girl, Marrakesh, 1968 -- Trying to Live -- IV. -- "Your Foot, Your Root" -- Whiteness on her Deathbed -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry -- Back Cover.

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