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" My index of slightly horrifying knowledge / "
Paul Guest.
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BL
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1012733
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b767103
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| Main Entry
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Guest, Paul.
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| Title & Author
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My index of slightly horrifying knowledge /\ Paul Guest.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Ecco,, ©2008.
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x, 81 pages ;; 24 cm
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006168516X
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: 9780061685163
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| Notes
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Poems.
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| Contents
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User's Guide to Physical Debilitation -- My Life Among -- Airport Letter 1 -- Rented Dark -- Poem Written to Replace Another -- Poem Written outside Wintry Mix -- Audio Commentary Track 1 -- Loyalty Oath -- A Brief History of History -- My Past -- Early in a New Year -- My Crush -- The Lives of the Optimists -- One More Theory about Happiness -- Eulogy -- Valentine -- To-Do List -- Towards a Theory of Proximity -- Elegiac Forecast -- Remember How Sad That Was When -- Things We Agreed Not to Shout -- Audio Commentary Track 2 -- My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge -- Oblivion: Letter Home 1 -- Oblivion: Letter Home 2 -- Oblivion: Letter Home 3 -- Poison -- Regarding Your Applications for Many Imaginary Positions -- Job -- My Nightmare -- Bad Mood -- Accent -- My Arms -- Preemptive Elegy -- Airport Letter 2 -- Travel -- Semi-Apocalyptic R.S.V.P. with Contingencies -- Seduction with Monomyth -- Bordering on the Tragic -- Elegy for the Plesiosauron on the Advent of Its Predicted Return -- Praise -- At Night, in November, Trying Not to Think of Asphodel -- Beginning in the Lost and Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama -- Austria -- Elegy for the Lumbering Monster -- A Long Time I've Wanted to Say Something -- My Luck -- My Mock-Scale Dream.
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| Abstract
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Offers new perspectives on the author's experiences as a physically challenged writer and the range of emotions he endured after a childhood accident that left him paralyzed.
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American poetry-- 21st century.
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Poetry-- 21st century.
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American poetry.
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American poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Dewey Classification
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811.6
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PS3607.U47M9 2008
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