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This is the record of one summer in the life of a failure—a resentful, defiant, absurd figure sulking in Canada's North Woods. The poems in this collection chronicle his writhings—comic, violent, pathetic, and malevolent by turns. The result is raw, gross, pitiful—and funny.
| Stuck Up | 9 | |
| Solstice | 10 | |
| How I Came to Be Born into Late-Twentieth-Century California | 12 | |
| Bats and Spiders | 13 | |
| Tannenberg, Stalingrad, Pleasant Hill | 15 | |
| Meat Rule Already Broken | 16 | |
| Poetics of Cowardice | 18 | |
| Waterloo | 21 | |
| Today I Drove Them to the Ferry | 23 | |
| Kant vs Schopenhauer | 24 | |
| In Which I Materialize, Horribly Maimed, in the Transporter Room of the Enterprise | 25 | |
| They'll Cite Me Later | 26 | |
| Cuckoldry | 27 | |
| This Is What's Funny | 30 | |
| Let Me Not Be Coleridge | 32 | |
| The Wordsworth Goes on a Journey | 35 | |
| A Couple of Mongols | 37 | |
| False Clues and Foolish Pride | 38 | |
| And I'd Do It Again | 39 | |
| The Long Dusk | 40 | |
| In Which I Get Snotty and then Whack Myself Good | 41 | |
| I Dreamed We Walked through Derry | 43 | |
| The Bra Ads | 44 | |
| What's Far-Fetched about Hell? | 45 | |
| Mitzy Carlough's Tenth Birthday | 46 | |
| The Bat House | 49 | |
| This Plankton Cloud Body | 50 | |
| The Story of Deirdre | 51 | |
| Archeopteryx | 52 | |
| The Lecture on Scarcity | 53 | |
| How They Make Coral Reefs | 56 | |
| An Angel Reports to Darwin | 57 | |
| I Prayed to the Moon | 59 | |
| Cursed Be that Name | 61 | |
| Imagining an Otter Staring Back from the Lake | 64 | |
| As I Leave | 68 |
Overview
This is the record of one summer in the life of a failure—a resentful, defiant, absurd figure sulking in Canada's North Woods. The poems in this collection chronicle his writhings—comic, violent, pathetic, and malevolent by turns. The result is raw, gross, pitiful—and funny.