The smoking book /
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| Author / Creator: | Stern, Lesley. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999. |
| Description: | ix, 238 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dustjacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4116169 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Smoke Circles
- Burnout
- Suspended Forever
- A Fishy Smell
- Not Wanting
- Burial
- Like a Precious Gem
- Yakandanda
- The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
- White Man
- Translation (a gift of opium)
- No Substitute
- Seasickness
- Screaming
- To Bubble and Rumble (like an elephant)
- Memory Missiles
- A Smoky Edifice (implosion)
- Babies or Booze (metonymy)
- Bombs or Burns (metaphor)
- Traced by (a slight sense of) Bitterness
- Instead of a Lobotomy (a cigarette)
- To Remember (to find yourself in fragments)
- To Forget
- Chaos
- Smoko
- Black Hole Spinning (the physics of writing)
- Healthy
- Strange Attractors
- A Lycanthropic Age (the writing cure)
- A Boil About to Burst (the talking cure)
- Voicing
- Mouthing
- Appetite
- Lions Don't Smoke
- Poison
- Fog Drinking
- Kettle Logic (the art of separation)
- I Done a Lotta Bad Things
- The Smoking Room
- Kindness (or, the werewolf comes home)
- Those Places in the Body That Have No Language Either
- Anticipation (a crevice opening up)
- Habit
- Panic
- A Sleeping Problem
- Open Arms
- Fire Escape
- Lighting Up
- Unspooling
- Demons
- Possessed
- Smoking Landscape
- Life-Giving Mist
- In Transit
- Notes
- Glossary
