Salvage: readings from the wreck

To recover belongings from a wreck

An autobiography of the autobiography of reading

I. an appearance

II. unseen, unread

III. the snarling... noise, and a deep human groan

IV. who is and is not

Their brutal fantasies, our realism

I. violent elisions

II. Oroonoko and the racial romantic

III. or the adventure is always already violent

IV. when did "Friday" become Black and lose his tongue?

V. why save that?

VI. these paragraphs are about a body

VII. this paragraph is about a horse

An autobiography of interruption, but much more

I. sound

II. this paragraph is about a town

III. vestiges : to look again

This ending is about a house