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WINNER OF THE 2010 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE

“Glenn Shaheen is claiming new ground for American poetry. His poems are about the nightmares of information overload, collapsing infrastructure, ubiquitous violence, and other ills of late empire. The subjects are not happy, but Shaheen's clear vision and crisp—often witty—language offer the pleasures of surprise, discovery, and recognition.”
—Ed Ochester

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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Feral Cats
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  1. Killing Machine
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  1. Dementia Unit
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  1. New Model Honeybee
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  1. Introducing Love into the Fragile Texas Ecosystem
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  1. Longest Day of the Year
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  1. A Guarantee of Protection
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  1. Space Phenomenon
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  1. The SS American Star
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  1. Moderate Division Techniques
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  1. Predatory
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  1. The Page on which the Spine Is Broken
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  1. Sunspots Disrupt Broadcast Signals for a Week, Driving People Completely Nuts
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  1. What We Can Know from the Footage the News Replays
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  1. Accidental Injury and Those Who Are Liable
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  1. Monstrous
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  1. The Rothko Chapel
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  1. Suddenly, a Bottomless Pit
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  1. The Halifax Explosion
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  1. In Yellowknife, an Inuit Man Is Suspected of Sneaking into Homes at Night and Cutting Out the Organs of People for Food
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  1. Repossession
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  1. On Our Destroyed Cities
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  1. Cant
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  1. Chinese Spies
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  1. Unlimited
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  1. The Historic Battleship USS Alabama
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  1. The Things We Own and the Things We Wish to Own
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  1. Things We Demand to Know
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  1. I Am a Wall in a House and I Have a Duty to Remain Erect
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  1. A Society in which We Could Be Destroyed at Any Second by Somebody who Grossly Misunderstands Us
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  1. You’re Invited
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  1. Battery and Kinetic
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  1. In the Spirit of Forgiveness, I Present the Heartbreak Delegation with a Bushel of Florida Oranges
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  1. All the Evil in the Animal Kingdom
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  1. Destroyer
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  1. Terror!!!
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  1. Sang
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  1. Love in Big City
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  1. Notes
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  1. Acknowledgments
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