The Smoking Book.
The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780226773322 0226773329 1281430420 9781281430427 9786611430429 6611430423 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Smoke Circles
- Burnout
- Suspended Forever
- A Fishy Smell
- Not Wan
- Burial
- Like a Precious Gem
- Yakandanda
- The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
- White Man
- Translation (a gift of opium)
- No Substitute
- Seasickness
- Screaming
- To Bubble and Rumble (like an elephant)
- Memory Missiles
- A Smoky Edifice (implosion)
- Babies or Booze (metonymy)
- Bombs or Bums (metaphor)
- Traced by (a slight sense of) Bitterness
- Instead of a Lobotomy (a cigarette)
- To Remember (to find yourself in fragments)
- To Forget
- Chaos
- Smoko
- Black Hole Spinning (the physics of writing)
- Healthy
- Strange Attractors
- A Lycanthropic Age (the writing cure)
- A Boil About to Burst (the talking cure)
- Voicing
- Mouthing
- Appetite
- Lions Don't Smoke
- Poison
- Fog Drinking
- Kettle Logic (the art of separation)
- I Done a Lotta Bad Things
- The Smoking Room
- Kindness (or, the werewolf comes home)
- Those Places in the Body That Have No Language Either
- Anticipation (a crevice opening up)
- Habit
- Panic
- A Sleeping Problem
- Open Arms
- Fire Escape