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Contents: The Symbolic Landscape of Your Childhood 1; Death Is a Hysterical Dynasty 6; Using 7; Maximalism: A Romance 8; Postcard from a Place I Have Never Been 9; Procedure 11; First Antiphon of Callow Youth 12; The Bungalow Club 13; A Battery-Powered Picaresque 14; Maximalism: Overture 18; Soldiers at Parade Rest 19; Life During Wartime 21; Megalography 23; Maximalism: Suite Number One 24; Maximalism: Suite Number Two 26; Poem That Admits Its Own Defeat 27; A Military History of Seduction 30; Maximalism: The Inaugural Address 32; Last of the Soviets 34; Poem That Cries at the National Anthem 35; Nostalgic Love Poetry: A Poetics in Ten Parts 38; A Psalm for Billy Sathmary, Loneliest Child in the Seventh Grade Limits 40; This Therapy Has Had Amazing Results 45; Why I Love What Breaks Down 46; Poem That Wishes It Could Touch Your Face 47; Time Grants the Two of Us Some Perspective 50; Portrait of You at the Victory Banquet 51

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