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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments |
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Three Hundred and Forty-Nine Words |
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Solace |
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A Kind of Response |
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The Beginnings of Dys-Girl's Body |
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The Subtle Marks of Vulnerability |
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Beauty Pierced |
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Punctum |
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Resistance of a Scarred Surface |
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Waves of Words |
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The Force of Not Breathing |
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Torsion |
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Sensed-Not-Sensed |
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Rose at Thirteen |
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Girls Falling (the Play of Theory) |
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Vulnerability Incarnate |
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Narrative Anxiety of the Vulnerable (Willa) |
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Darkness Brakes (Motor Vehicle Accident) |
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Firstborn |
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Sensuous Language |
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The Body of Medicine |
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Another Form of Water |
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This Body Is Not My Fault |
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The Earthworm |
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Inside the Writing |
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Story of a Life in Six Pieces |
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Impasse |
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Failure |
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Aspiration (Failure) |
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Raw Flesh and Bone Against the Ginger of My Hair |
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Anagraphia |
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A Silver Hummm |
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Names I Have Never Tasted |
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A Bitter Medium |
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Bare Palace |
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Sore-Footed Stories |
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This Body Is an Academy of Medicine |
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We Are in Constant Touch |
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Night Bus (Biopsy) |
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I Wonder if the Others See Me |
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It Cannot Be Spoken |
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My Heart Is Closer Now |
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A Woman Is Told |
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More About Dys-Body |
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The Petals of Flowers—The Fallen Promises of One Body to Another |
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Going Under |
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Touch |
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The Inconstant Artist |
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The Shambles |
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Hearts |
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My Writing Is an Act of Desire |
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Beauty and Death |
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I Hold Her Heart |
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Drawing |
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Constellations |
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Resistance |
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Rosarium |
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There Are Some Things I Can Write Only Once |
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Note 64: One Story Calls to Another |
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Reading |
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Endnotes |
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References |
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Further Reading |
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Index |