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"Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us," writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabinetmaker -- defined by the peppery dust from the woodworker planing a walnut board, turning an oak spindle at the lathe, or honing chisels while gazing out a window -- Scafidi's poems reveal both the tenuous and the everlasting nature of existence.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. C
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. 1
  1. Sometimes There Is a Shit Smell Everywhere
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  1. The West Virginia Copper-Wing
  2. pp. 4-5
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  1. This Page
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  1. Song for the Holy Ghost
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  1. Two Cabinetmakers
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  1. Looking for the Maker’s Name
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  1. At Wartime
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  1. Questions I Asked Death, Questions Death Asked Me
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  1. The Rocking Chair Bookcase
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  1. Triumph of the Jabberwock
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  1. Phone Call from the Pleistocene
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  1. If Faulkner Is Wrong and We Don’t Endure or Prevail
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  1. 2
  1. Pig Fucker’s Wife
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  1. Song for the Tribe
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  1. The Chisel
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  1. Thank-You Wishes for the Wilderness
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  1. Death of a Unicorn
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  1. The Cabinetmaker’s Window
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  1. Like OMG, I Can Die Now ♥ Pammy
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  1. Ars Aureus
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  1. Lines for the Atrium of a High School
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  1. After Ammianus of the 2nd Century A.D.
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  1. Song for the Carry-On
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  1. Driving Around
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  1. 3
  1. The Little Girl from Outer Space
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  1. On the Back of an Envelope
  2. p. 37
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  1. The Denunciation of Ricky Skaggs from On High
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  1. Days We Can’t Play Black Sabbath
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  1. Ode with a Dolphin at the End
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  1. On the Birth of a Friend’s Child
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  1. Under the Collard Greens and the Poppies
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  1. To a Cloud over Troy
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  1. Dreaming Made the Hula Hoop
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  1. You Should, Said Socrates, Sing a Charm over Him Every Day Until You Have Charmed Away His Fears
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  1. Music for the Word Perhaps
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  1. The Hillbilly Break-Dance and the Talking Crow
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  1. Whiskey for Sorrow and a Song of Disgrace
  2. p. 55
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  1. The Laborer
  2. pp. 56-57
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  1. What Sings in the Garden Shines in the Sun
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  1. The Way the Days Pass One after Another
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  1. Thank You Lord for the Dark Ablaze—
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  1. How the Things We Work On, Work On Us
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  1. On the Rebel Flag over my Neighbor’s House
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  1. To the Cabinetmakers
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  1. Song for Sunday Morning
  2. p. 65
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  1. Poem Ending with a Line from Auden
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  1. The Taste of It
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  1. In the Parking Lot of the Barbershop
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  1. Acknowledgments
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