The Stenographer's Breakfast

by MCCUE, FRANCES

• ISBN13: 9780807068175
• ISBN10: 0807068179
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1992-04-30
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Winner of the 1992 Barnard New Women Poets award.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Dictation
Born to Work Alone	p. 3
In Single Moments	p. 5
The Princess and the Highwire	p. 7
Aunt Lillian, the Chemist and the Magician	p. 11
In a Town Not Far from Here: Speeches from the Mayor's Office	p. 13
The Stenographer's Diary	p. 15
Traveling North by Car Past the Spoon Factory	p. 16
Interview with the Hangman	p. 18
The Sinking, the Irretrievable	p. 20
Soundmaker: The Dictator's Scenario	p. 22
Transcription
The Stenographer's Breakfast	p. 27
Doctor Doctor	p. 31
Going Back to the Old School	p. 32
Doubling Up on Privacy at the Canterbury Juvenile Facility	p. 33
Landmarks as Randomly Fixed Points	p. 35
Living with Transcription	p. 37
The Text Buried in the Wreck	p. 39
The Visit	p. 41
Etiquette	p. 43
Barn Raising	p. 45
What Can Be Retained	p. 47
Translation
Astronauts Having Coffee	p. 51
What's Dangerous about Plumbing	p. 53
According to Neo-physics	p. 55
Thoor Ballylee on the Weekend	p. 56
Lullaby	p. 57
Simple Distortions	p. 59
Dead Reckoning	p. 60
"That Electric Arched Moment"	p. 62
By Two	p. 64
Dilemma	p. 65
The Way You Describe It	p. 66
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