Vanishing Bodies
Contents
About
Contents
I
Rupture: The Body as Battlefield
Vanishing Bodies
2
Body Count
3
Auto Biography
4
Avalanche
6
Accrual as Weapon
7
Red Hot
8
Fair Use
9
Empire of Trauma
10
II
Dissociation & Fragmentation
What’s the Matter?
12
Hhhaaa
13
Beside Herself
14
Not a Lilt
15
Feral
16
I Can’t Remember My Name
17
Murphy Retrograde
18
Loose Change
19
Rend Tender
20
III
Surreal Survival & Language Play
Alpaca Lips Meow
22
Bare of Bones
23
Hysterical
25
Word Installations
26
Bad Ideas
27
I can’t guarantee
28
IV
Inheritance & Contamination
Becoming a Term in a Set
30
Our Lady
31
Veiled
32
The Human Brain Sees Women as Parts and Men as Whole
34
Choose Your Own Adventure, or
35
V
Relationships & Betrayals
In Effigy
37
Islands
38
Florida Sunshine
39
Wish I Was the Tub
41
Forty-Five
43
VI
Reclamation Through Language & Body
Voice Skins Knees
46
Oomph & Mana
47
The Body’s Refined Instrument
48
Tobacco & Pennies; Ode to Cuir de Russie
49
Buying New Underwear
50
Submission
52
Street Sense
53
Desire
54
VII
Emergence & Integration
Trauma as a Floating Signifier
56
Mana Speaks
57
Shucking Myself
58
Consolation Prize
59
Rift Raft
60
Gallantry
61
Sotto Voce
62
Coda
Testimony
Dear Reader,
64
Notes