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This stunning first collection of funny, strange, aphoristic , indissoluble poems reveals Larry Bridges to be as talented a poet as he is a filmmaker. Full of verve and revelation, these poems are a storehouse of sadness and awakened consciousness.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 7-10
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  1. Introduction
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  1. Part 1. The Sea Is a Self-Extracting Archive
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  1. Favorite Color: Green
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  1. The House Is a Vegetable
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  1. Reminds Me of Crossing the Cascades
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  1. Horses on Drums
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  1. Men Who Shout in Spanish
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  1. At the End of Sunset
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  1. Round Trip
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  1. Blood Red Sunrise
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  1. Part 2. Threaten to Be Arbitrary
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  1. I. This Is Not a Summer Poem
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  1. II. It Starts With the Right Words
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  1. III. Atomic Body
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  1. IV. Window Jamb on the World
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  1. V. Threaten to Be Arbitrary
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  1. VI. Purpose
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  1. Part 3. Now This Forest
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  1. The Butterfly Circus
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  1. D and O Are the First Two Letters of Doubt
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  1. What I Say When You Ask Me What I Do
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  1. Why I Can’t See It Coming
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  1. The First Move
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  1. Fifty Ivory Elephants
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  1. Part 4. Sweeping the Brane
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  1. I. "And jargon is the consequence . . ."
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  1. II. "I’m picturing myself before writing, standing"
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  1. III. "Now / the day breaks open and"
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  1. IV. "The empty page has bones"
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  1. V. "Balloons hold me down"
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  1. VI. "My teeth are my theme"
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  1. VII. "Each poem starts with a lament"
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  1. VIII. "Thieves call for you"
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  1. IX. "The moth sleeps in the spirals of my notebook"
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  1. X. "It’s as if your heart, expanding in heart alone"
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  1. XI. "It was Aphrodite’s wish, the world turning"
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  1. Part 5. Three Years of a Good Habit
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  1. From the Air
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  1. Owens Valley
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  1. The California Loop
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  1. Clever Desert
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  1. Ghost Cradle
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  1. After Rain
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  1. Part 6. You Are Always Entertaining and Delightful
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  1. First Sun
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  1. Real Time
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  1. The Future Is Not Destination
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  1. Scene: An Ocean View
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  1. Body Caught by Light
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  1. Scene from Inside
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  1. The Text
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  1. Scene: San Francisco, Day
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  1. Asleep on the Pacific
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  1. Tobogganing the Opera House
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  1. Boat I Liked: My Movie
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  1. Vanity Sport
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  1. Laurel Canyon, Houdini’s Mansion
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  1. Picture within Picture
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  1. Part 7. When the Industrial Revolution Ended
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  1. The Street Is a Pile of Entropy
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  1. M. I.
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  1. When the Industrial Revolution Ended
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  1. Independence Day
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  1. Transparent Junkyard
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  1. The Term “Homo Sapiens” Is Reserved for Those Over 50
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  1. Specially Woven Edge That Prevents Cloth from Unraveling
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  1. Hunting for Orchestras
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  1. Standard
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  1. A Yard Full of Holes
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  1. Search Lights in the Valley
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  1. My Summer Started
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  1. Notes
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