Actual Air

ISBN: 1-890447-04-8

First paperback edition published in 1999 by Open City Books.

Hardcover edition published in 2003 by Drag City and limited to 500 copies.

Contents

1.

Snow
Classic Water
Civics
Governors on Sominex
The Spine of the Snowman
The Coahoma County Wind Cults
Imagining Defeat
Tableau Through Shattered Monocle
If There Was a Book About This Hallway
Narrated by a Committee
Cassette County
World: Series
Tulsa
Community College in the Rain
The Charm of 5:30
The Moon

2.

From Cantos for James Michener: Part II
New York, New York
The Night Nurse Essays
From “Guide to the Graves of British Actors”
Serenade for a Wealthy Widow
The Homeowner’s Prayer
From His Bed in the Capital City
Nervous Ashers
April 13th, 1865
Self Portrait at 28

3.

From Cantos for James Michener: Part I
Coral Gables
The New Idea
How I Met Your Mother
They Don’t Acknowledge the Letter C
Democratic Vistas
Piano and Scene
Of Things Found Where They Are Not Supposed To Be
A Letter from Isaac Asimov to His Wife Janet, Written On His Deathbed
Virginia Mines: The Mascara Series
Now II
War in Apartment 1812
The Double Bell of Heat