Contents
I.
Initiation #5: Lorca
A Short Genealogy of Power Tools
Creation Myth, 1979 (Reappropriated)
Family Elegy in a Late Style of Fire
Upon Seeing Simon & Garfunkellive at the Coliseum
A Genealogy of the Father
II.
Ars Poetica #9 (The After-hours Version)
Epithalamium Intercepted at the Border
Bestiary
Lorca’s Last Letter to Dalí, August 20, 1936
Lorca Recalls His First Love
Lorca Addresses His Sister Before Her Wedding
By the Numbers
Camino Real
V’s Dream on the Plane from Mexico City to Chicago
III.
Ten Years Apprenticeship in the Republic of Carnivorous Love
Dying in an Earthquake in Mexico City
Dear Forgiveness,
Deathbed
Elevator: A Love Story
Holding Pattern, Lifted
IV.
Ars Amatoria: So You Want to Marry a Foreign National
Ars Poetica #40 (The Worst Case Scenario Version)
There Are Lots of Guns Here—
Monologue During a Blackout
Epithalamium with Swan Song
Notes
Acknowledgments