Fugitive pieces (27 page)
Authors: Anne Michaels
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1996 Anne Michaels
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Michaels, Anne.
Fugitive Pieces/ Anne Michaels. —1st ed.
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eISBN: 978-0-307-55629-5
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PR9199.3.M453F84 1997
813’.54—dc20 96-36678
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The author thanks the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the
Toronto Arts Council.
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Table of Contents
Acclaim for Anne Michaels‘s Fugitive Pieces
Chapter 1 - The Stone-Carriers
Chapter 2 - Vertical Time
Chapter 3 - The Way Station
Chapter 4 - Phosphorus
Chapter 5 - Terra Nullius
Chapter 6 - The Gradual Instant
Chapter 7 - Vertical Time
Chapter 8 - Phosphorus
Chapter 9 - The Way Station
