Fiction |
“Madhouse”
“A mad plumber ran pipes in and out of walls and tuned them so the house would sing dirges as water heated and the tub filled.”
Poetry |
“Make It”
Poetry |
“Self-Portrait at Midlife Crisis”
Poetry |
“The ABCs of ‘Of’”
Essay |
“Mid-April Book of Days”
“At night, you lull yourself to sleep listening to an interview of a woman who studies the brain chemistry of sex and romance. These hormones, the woman says, diminish activity in the decision-making part of the brain.”
Fiction |
“The Silkworm’s Address”
“Testing the omnipotence of thought, we would turn off the heaters when it got really cold, our foreheads burning.”
Poetry |
“Lines About The Wind”
Essay |
“Self-Portrait as Blue Self-Portrait: on Noémi Lefebvre, Shame, and Schoenberg”
“… imposter-syndrome feelings constitute the book: worried woman-as-intellectual-outsider; obsessive, anxious woman re-writing previous social encounters; woman apologizing for her opinions …”