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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807068175
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	04/30/1992
Series:	Barnard New Women Poets
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
I.	Dictation
	Born to Work Alone	3
	In Single Moments	5
	The Princess and the Highwire	7
	Aunt Lillian, the Chemist and the Magician	11
	In a Town Not Far from Here: Speeches from the Mayor's Office	13
	The Stenographer's Diary	15
	Traveling North by Car Past the Spoon Factory	16
	Interview with the Hangman	18
	The Sinking, the Irretrievable	20
	Soundmaker: The Dictator's Scenario	22
II.	Transcription
	The Stenographer's Breakfast	27
	Doctor Doctor	31
	Going Back to the Old School	32
	Doubling Up on Privacy at the Canterbury Juvenile Facility	33
	Landmarks as Randomly Fixed Points	35
	Living with Transcription	37
	The Text Buried in the Wreck	39
	The Visit	41
	Etiquette	43
	Barn Raising	45
	What Can Be Retained	47
III.	Translation
	Astronauts Having Coffee	51
	What's Dangerous about Plumbing	53
	According to Neo-physics	55
	Thoor Ballylee on the Weekend	56
	Lullaby	57
	Simple Distortions	59
	Dead Reckoning	60
	"That Electric Arched Moment"	62
	By Two	64
	Dilemma	65
	The Way You Describe It	66

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