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| Acknowledgments |
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For Roland, Pressumed Taken |
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The Men Who Killed My Brother |
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Evidence of Death's Voodoo --- Inside and Outside the ``Gun as Art Exhibit'' |
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Essays on Excess and Escape |
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31 | (1) |
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In a Motel in Louisiana I Watch the Pirates and the OJ Simpson Freeway Chase at the Same Time |
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In the Season of Suicides |
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37 | (1) |
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Newborn Found Alive in Shallow Grave |
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How Can I Turn Off This Engine Now? |
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Fears of the Eighth Grade |
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Pantoum of the Working Classes |
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When the Leather Is a Whip |
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The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics |
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The Mack Charles Parker Lynching |
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Columbine High School/Littleton, CO |
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Prayer to the Boys of San Antonio |
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92 | (3) |
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On Viewing Two Different Date Rape Movies |
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101 | (2) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (5) |
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The Wreckage along the River |
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My Gun Has So Many Places to Hide |
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117 | (1) |
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Revenge, Like Habanero Peppers |
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118 | (1) |
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Shall We Gather at the River? |
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121 | (1) |
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I Still Can't Say the Word |
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124 | (2) |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (2) |
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Regardless of the Final Score |
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134 | (2) |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (1) |
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The Persistence of Memory, the Failure of Poetry |
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After the Fact: To Ted Bundy |
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140 | (4) |
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144 | (2) |
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146 | (2) |
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148 | (1) |
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150 | (7) |
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Redneck with Hair on His Back |
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163 | (2) |
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166 | (3) |
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169 | (2) |
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Some Poems Aren't for You |
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172 | (2) |
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A Birthday Party on Old Orchard Road |
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Sleeping Soundly Where Lizzy Borden Did |
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My Grandmother's Birthday |
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A Boy Exploded on the Corner Today |
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On Reporting the Murder of a Young Prostitute |
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Demonstration: Women's House of Detention, 1965 |
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190 | (2) |
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192 | (1) |
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193 | (1) |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Permissions |
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| Title Index |
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