Authors
- Pages
- 208
- Published in
- Toronto, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Praise for Broken Fiction 2
- Half Title Page 4
- Title Page 6
- Copyright Page 7
- Dedication 8
- Contents 10
- Between the Worlds of the Well and the Unwell 14
- The Trip 16
- Ode to a Node 18
- Salvage 19
- The Truth 22
- Petechia 25
- A Work of Art 29
- Positively Gin 33
- Changing the Subject 36
- Soft Figs 39
- Her Tears 40
- Approaching and Forgetting 44
- To Have a Daughter 47
- She Made Me Read Sharon Olds and Look What Happened 49
- The New Pearl Necklace 51
- Alone 55
- Regret Powers Love, or, Joseph and Irma 58
- Imitation 62
- Stairs 64
- Three Corners 67
- Quietness Is a Poem 73
- Ida and Liz 75
- My Mother Died? 78
- Green Gold, Hard Work 81
- My Grandmother Only 84
- Fruit Tree They Might Have Planted Before They Were Naturalized 86
- Defend Me, or, Regret 87
- Saving Seats 90
- Big Laughing Guy Turns Thirty-One 92
- The New Baby and Emma Goldman 94
- Remembering, or, Love 98
- Another Letter to My Mother 99
- Highway 400 Tells Stories about Teens 103
- Too Much Beauty 106
- The Time Will Come: Part One 108
- Christmas Morning 2012 111
- Prodigious Peace in Human Metre 112
- Injured Sparrow 115
- The Time Will Come: Part Two 116
- I Heard the Lion Roar 117
- Broken Fiction: Part One 120
- Dreams 121
- Spring Bus Stop 123
- Of a Piece – The Conductor 126
- Of a Piece, Still The Tall Man 128
- When We Are Thirty-Two 130
- For Her Twenty-Sixth Birthday 131
- He Has a Birthday That We All Play 133
- The Voice in the Angle 135
- Skin Plus Two Makes 137
- For Dori 139
- Remembering, or, Disdain 141
- The Rabbit Hole 144
- To Perform 146
- You Have Read This Far from 1320 148
- Tears Are Hungarian? 149
- One: Turning and Pulling 152
- Two: And Then There Is Love 154
- Cottage Story, Autumn 156
- The Call about My Death 158
- Purple Moth 161
- So, What Is the Purpose of Our Lives, She Asked 163
- It Didn’t Start with Me? 166
- Cultivating Gullibility 174
- Bibliography 184
- Acknowledgements 188
- About the Author 190
