A manual for nothing / Jessica Anne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anne, Jessica, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

154 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Las Cruces, New Mexico : Noemi Press, [2017]

Contents:

Gathering Supplies 1

The Cover 4

Dedication 6

You're My Favorite // A 9

How to be a Performance Artist // A 13

Your Entire Life 19

Look Back, Game (of chance) 23

Punishment Report 25

How to Be Estranged From Your Mother 28

Maroon Chart 34

How Not to Lose Your Virginity, Some Assembly Required > 38

Rachel 40

First Virginity 43

A Few Men. Or, Thinking While Driving 47

Objects of Your Depression 52

White 55

Dove. In Which You, The Little Girl in the Shed, Meet You, Rested Writer Writing (About Love) 58

List 64

You're My Favorite // B 67

How to Be a Performance Artist // B 69

Chance, Game. (Looking Back) 73

Cleopatra Exercise, Act I 76

How Not to Be Raped 83

Cleopatra, Act II 86

Acceptance, Anne 94

Notes on a Lear 97

Suicide Kit, Some Assembly Required 100

How to Write All the Time and With Confidence 102

How to Be a Performance Artist // C 106

WARNING 110

Human Charm Bracelet 112

Masters 114

Opposite of Hate 116

You're My Favorite // C 118

Bridge to the Chelsea Drugstore 126

The Waitress Writer 130

The Rested Writer 133

Rested Writing of Rested Waitress Writer (Sans Mumble ((Core)) 135

Suzanne 137

D 142

Husband, Does Not Come Assembled 144

First Time Person, Assemble 148

Practices of Citing Sources 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781934819647

1934819646

OCLC:

974911118

Publisher Number:

99976677741