Neck deep and other predicaments

Neck deep and other predicaments / Ander Monson.

"In this nonfiction debut, Monson uses unexpectedly nonliterary forms - the index, the Harvard Outline, the mathematical proof - to delve into an equally surprising mix of obsessions: disc golf, the history of mining in northern Michigan, car washes, snow, topology, and more. He remembers the t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monson, Ander, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
American essays.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Table of Contents:
  • Outline toward a theory of the mine versus the mind and the Harvard outline
  • I have been thinking about snow
  • Cranbrook Schools : adventures in bourgeois topologies
  • Index for X and the origin of fires
  • Fragments : on dentistry
  • Subject to wave action : a there and a back (with orchestral accompaniment)
  • The long crush
  • Failure : a meditation, another iteration (with interruptions)
  • After form and formlessness : bodies, boats, and bathing
  • The big and sometimes colored foam : four annotated car washes
  • Afterword: Elegy for telegram and Starflight.

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