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Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Angela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
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  1. A Convention of Offenses
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  1. My Days at Sea
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  1. Our Tigers
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  1. Journal for Baudelaire
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  1. New Country
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  1. On Sports
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  1. Society for the Dissolution of Learning
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  1. Rimbaud’s Ears
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  1. Power
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  1. Spring
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  1. What to Wear for Divorce
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  1. Closet of Desserts
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  1. Less-than-Stylish Ennui
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  1. My Genuine Correspondence with Lord Byron
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  1. True Story
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  1. Two Things That Didn’t Happen to Me
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  1. How Things Work
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  1. Color Film
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  1. My Conference with Guillaume Apollinaire
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  1. Someday I’ll Take Again My Lightning Drive through Love
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  1. Jazz
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  1. Pup
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  1. Annulment
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  1. Bee
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  1. To Percy Bysshe Shelley
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  1. Disabled Power Steering
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  1. Inadequacy
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  1. High-Rise
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  1. Planet of Distraction
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  1. Lift
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  1. Fence
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  1. The Candidates
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  1. Temp
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  1. Once
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  1. My Boyfriend: A Confession
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  1. Nurse Kiki on WCW
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  1. Singles
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  1. Bob’s Our Uncle
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  1. Balm
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  1. The Band
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  1. Someone Is Messing Up the Roses
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  1. Our Lodger
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  1. Boathouse
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  1. Why I Should Be a Concierge
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  1. That Was Me
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  1. Difficult Daughters
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  1. How Need Makes Beauty
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  1. The Dress with Books on It Is Too Small
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  1. My Mettle
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  1. Big Colt
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  1. Good Night, Mr. Know-It-All
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  1. For Larry Rivers
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  1. Piecework
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  1. My Background
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  1. My Audition
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  1. Bone
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  1. Phoning Frank O’Hara
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  1. O Apollinaire, O Quai d’Orsay, O Luxembourg
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  1. Provisions
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  1. Notes
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  1. Acknowledgments
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