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Authors: Leslie Jamison

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Table of Contents

Praise

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

The Empathy Exams

Devil’s Bait

La Frontera

Morphology of the Hit

Pain Tours (I)

La Plata Perdida
Sublime, Revised
Indigenous to the Hood

The Immortal Horizon

In Defense of Saccharin(e)

Fog Count

Pain Tours (II)

Ex-Votos
Servicio Supercompleto
The Broken Heart of James Agee

Lost Boys

Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain

Works Consulted

Acknowledgments

Judge’s Afterword by Robert Polito

About the Author

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