Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; One; Science Fair; Uncle Z's Toupee; Strong Man; Evel Knievel; Elephant; The Land Agent; In the Valley of Plenty; Vanishing Act; Rural Electrification; Symbiosis; Two: Re-Creation Myths; Sea Anemones; Hippopotamuses; Bats; Elk; Slugs; Pigs; Lobsters; Turkey Vultures; Three; Dream in Which We Eat the World; The Secrets of Eroticism; Blizzard; Experimental Mating Rituals for the Nearly Extinct; Murder Ballad; Charon's Pawn Shop; Night Class at the School of Metaphysics; Tubas; Blindfold; Civil War; Four: Re-Creation Myths; Wolves; Oxen; Pelicans
CottonmouthsDaddy Longlegs; Gila Monsters; Moths; Oysters; Five; Owls; The Book of Orders; The Heart of a Rabbit; Black Hole; Lost in Translation; A Story of Teeth; Risk Management; Afterlife; The Future of Loneliness; Field Recording; Acknowledgments and Notes; Back Cover
Summary
"In "Vanishing Acts" the poems straddle the comic and the tragic. They are by turns funny and haunting and ripe with scathing satire. They draw on the genres of the speculative and science fiction as much as our poetic traditions and speak to the precarious state of man and the natural world in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher
