TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Part One. Facets. 1

Chapter One. Protocols. 4

Chapter Two. Writing Strategies 21

Chapter Three. Conjugating Knowledge Worlds. 38

 

Part Two. We Write … 60

Chapter Four. We Write-with Companions. 61

Chapter Five. We Write Where We Are. 81

Chapter Six. We Write Who We Are. 98

 

Part Three. Re-enchanting Worlds. 116

Chapter Seven. Refrains. A Kind of Magic. 117

Chapter Eight. Opaque Worlds of Tricksters. 135

Chapter Nine. Writing With the Hands of Gods. 158

 

Part Four. Not-Knowing. 176

Chapter Ten. Informed Ignorance. Eight Chickens

and There was this Goat. 177

Chapter Eleven. The All-Knowing Iconoclast.

Grendel The Monster and Jagannath’s Stone. 196

Chapter Twelve. Allegorical Blank Objects.

The Missing and the Unfinished. 217

 

Part Five. Small is Big. 238

Chapter Thirteen. Happenstance. A Rubbish Tip,

an Owl and a Boojum. 239

Chapter Fourteen. Anecdotes. Not-love Stories,

Onions and Encounters with Foxes. 257

Chapter Fifteen. Worlds of Poetry and Theory.

Zinc Verse and an Ethno-poet. 273

 

Part Six. Styles. 294

Chapter Sixteen. Yellingwriting. The Catharsis of Rage. 295

Chapter Seventeen. On Late Styles. Women in their Bardos. 315

Chapter Eighteen. The Last Plateau. 338