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- The Alphabet Conspiracy
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
The Alphabet Conspiracy takes its name from a 1950s-era school filmstrip of the same title. With a cast that includes patron saints for country girls and criminals, a Revolutionary War hero, the Wolfman, a sin-eater, John Wayne, and Johnny Cash, these poems swagger and sulk through an educational film turned film noir, replete with femme fatales in love.
The Alphabet Conspiracy is about the ways in which language itself can function as a plot, keeping us estranged from ourselves, but also about the way it can be used as a tool for recovering our truest selves.
Table of Contents
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- Intercession
- pp. 13-15
- Spurious Entry
- p. 17
- Dear Reader
- pp. 18-19
- The Alphabet Conspiracy
- pp. 21-23
- Meaning To Milk
- p. 25
- Vivian Buck, 1924-1932
- pp. 28-29
- Saint Rita
- p. 38
- Ossuary of James
- pp. 40-43
- Civic Duty
- p. 44
- The Sin-Eater
- p. 45
- Staying Under
- p. 47
- Monongah, 1907
- pp. 48-49
- Seed Store Sestina
- pp. 50-51
- Whatever You Do
- pp. 54-55
- Watson and the Shark
- pp. 58-59
- First Apartment
- p. 61
- The Burning Barn
- p. 64
- The Signal
- p. 65
- This Is Not True
- pp. 66-67
- Smite, Smitten
- p. 68
- In the Museum of Us
- p. 69
- The Plagiarist
- p. 70
- Auto Life Fire
- pp. 72-73
- A History of Glass
- pp. 76-77
- About the Author
- p. 80
Additional Information
ISBN
9780980040777
Related ISBN(s)
9780980040739
MARC Record
OCLC
867785658
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No