Asunder

by Lopez, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780982631812
• ISBN10: 0982631812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-07
• Publisher: Dzanc Books

Summary

Praise for Robert Lopez: " Kamby Bolongo Mean Rivermay just tie both your brain and stomach into knots."--John Madera, Word Riot " Part of the Worldis a gripping read, ominous, blackly hilarious and psychologically acute."--Jason Jones, Mid-American Review Robert Lopez has collected twenty-nine short stories, running from the very short on up to a novella in shorts to close out the book. Like his previous works, Asunderis a study in the usage of language. Lopez carefully considers each word before leaving it on the page, and it shows.

Author Biography

Robert Lopez: Robert Lopez is the author of the novels Part of the World, and Kamby Bolongo Mean River. His fiction and poetry has appeared in dozens of journals, including; Bomb, The Threepenny Review, The Mississippi Review, Indiana Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Blackbird, Nerve, etc. He teaches at The New School in New York City.

Table of Contents

Vaya Con Huevos	p. 13
Man on Train with Flowers	p. 21
Bleeders	p. 23
Geographic Tongue	p. 26
Everyone out of the Pool	p. 29
Scar	p. 31
One of My Daughters Is Called Resnick	p. 34
To Death I'm Starving	p. 36
Asunder	p. 41
Monkey in the Middle	p. 46
Disappearing Railroad Blues	p. 49
In Alabama the Tuscaloosa	p. 58
Maybe the Love of a One-Lunged Woman	p. 59
Full Frontal Nudity	p. 62
In a Boat About to Drown	p. 63
Priapism	p. 65
Nine off the Break	p. 71
South Dakota	p. 73
Shall We Run for Our Lives	p. 75
Old Man's Hands	p. 80
Hell on Church Street Blues	p. 82
Morning Exercise	p. 83
Your Epidermis Is Showing	p. 84
The Allergies	p. 92
The Be All and End All	p. 94
Long Walks, Short Piers	p. 97
The Indian from Indiana	p. 104
Burying the Survivors	p. 107
Bricks	p. 109
The Trees Underground
A Novella in Shorts
Man on Bus with Blindsters	p. 113
Man in the Middle of Monkey in the Middle	p. 115
The Trees Underground	p. 118
Herculaneum	p. 121
September When the Cicadas Die	p. 124
What Doesn't Matter Here	p. 127
The Price of Fish	p. 129
Blind Betty to Her Baby Brother	p. 131
Green Go Fast and Bluebonnet Home	p. 132
Kansas from the Air	p. 134
Mares Eat Oats and Does Eat Oats and Jackknifed Tractor-Trailers	p. 137
The Story of Willie Nelson's Guitar	p. 139
The Difference between Home and Here	p. 141
The Compressor	p. 143
These Things Will Sometimes Happen	p. 146
Don't Mind Dyin'	p. 148
Congratulations, Pity Jimmy	p. 151
Mice Getting the Points	p. 153
Entropy and Atrophy	p. 155
How to Mop a Kitchen Floor	p. 157
Confusing the Roaches	p. 158
The Middle of Timbuktu	p. 159
Halftime No Heat Halftime No Hot Water	p. 162
Yes and No and Maybe So	p. 165
Chop Suey	p. 166
Me Chinese	p. 167
The Turn Worming	p. 169
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