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Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Book
About the Press
Dedication
Opening image
1. Imagine if every interview started with epigraphs.
2. What is this? And how is "co-creation" relevant?
3. What do you mean by "what Others make of us"?
4. What is the poem?
5. Then, who is the X?
6. Doesn't that mean that X doesn't really 'exist'?
7. This is the part about eros, attention, and acceptance.
8. This is the part about seeing and wanting to be liked.
9. Surely writing is fun, though.
10. This is the part about genre fluidity.
11. Explain "hunger".
12. Did this "darkness" disappear on the farm?
13. But the moon is a cliche.
14. Are you trying to do something new by writing a book as an interview?
15. Here is a gap.
16. Here is the part about gatekeepers.
17. Here is the part about poetry saving your life.
18. What is a caesura?
19. This is the part about poets being bards for the people.
20. This is the part about Walter Benjamin and the "golden cufflink."
21. What is the difference between being authorless and being unauthored?
22. This is the etymological aside.
23. Can silences be resolved by words?
24. This is the part about rhetoric.
25. You keep returning to how we read images.
26. This is a lexical aside.
27. Who is the author?
28. How do "unthoughts" apply to the living?
29. What does it mean to be Romanian, in your opinion?
30. The part about how I's are lies.
31. How would you read the surveillance file?
32. Why does the author laugh?
33. Section break
34. No more questions. Captions. "All caps."
35. A triptych of stills.
36. The objective.
37. Collaborative authorship.
38. Translation.
39. "To exist in English."
40. These are true stories.
41. Still presence.
42. Perversity.
43. Hauntology of boxing.
44. Reifications.
45. Archival identity.
46. Paranoid readings.
47. Her favorite Leonard Cohen song.
48. Scythes.
49. Why did you . . .
50. Reparative reading.
51. Fake communities.
52. Desire for completion.
53. Thresholds.
54. Home lands.
55. "The language of childhood."
56. Is searching for the dead parent related to seeking the child one was in another country?
57. Ghost-ed.
58. Lust for innocence.
59. The aura of conclusion.
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Back Cover
Collage by the author’s author.
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