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Tables of Contents for Broken Symmetry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
I. THE LAND OF ATROPHY
3
28
Grandfather Outshines the Ancient Greeks
3
1
The Spirit of Competition
4
2
To Robert
6
2
Augustine, Aquinas, a Major League Team
8
2
Broken Symmetry
10
2
On Poetry as Punishment
12
3
Spring Picnic with Newton, Sudden Storm
15
1
Your Dream House
16
1
The Reckoning
17
3
Homage to the Undertaker
20
1
The Dancing of the Bees, the Progress of Multiple Sclerosis
21
1
The House of Pain
22
2
The Land of Atrophy
24
2
Prognosis
26
5
II. SMELLING THE SNOW
31
22
The Other White Meat
31
2
"Large Bear Deceives Me"
33
2
Fireflies
35
1
The Practical Ornithologist
36
2
The Art of Hummingbirds
38
1
Clown Fish
39
1
On the Proposition That a Nation Gets the Cuisine It Deserves
40
2
Yes, They Had No Tomatoes
42
1
Chili
43
1
Potato
44
2
Real Man Delivers an Anti-Pastoral to the Columbus, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce
46
1
Fat Poem
47
1
The War between Cookbooks and Diet Books
48
1
Smelling the Snow
49
4
III. THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE LOCUSTS
53
16
Sister Mary Appassionata Chases the Wind
53
2
Sister Mary Appassionata on the Excommunication of the Locusts
55
2
Sister Mary Appassionata Announces the Winning Project in the Eighth-Grade Science Fair: Our Good Friends the Insects
57
2
Sister Mary Appassionata to the Chamber of Commerce: Remains of Earliest Hominid Discovered in Ruins of Atlantis under Lake Erie
59
3
Sister Mary Appassionata Explicates a Graffito for the Eighth-Grade Boys
62
1
Sister Mary Appassionata, Marriage Counselor
63
2
Sister Mary Appassionata on the History of Madness
65
4
IV. CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB
69
The Girl Who Made the Stars
69
1
New Poem
70
1
Gathering the Dear Sweet Dead
71
1
A Brief Social History of Spit
72
2
Meditation on the Three Forms of Tongue Protrusion
74
2
Fra Lippo Lippi Invents a New Halo
76
2
A Matter of Perspective
78
2
The Bottom Line
80
2
Coach
82
2
Whole Wheat, Decaf Black, a Morbid Curiosity
84
2
In Bavaria, Two Vietnamese Beaten by Skinheads while On-lookers Cheer
86
1
Cold, Cold Poem
87
2
At the Well-Endowed Museum; Or, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
89