Table of Contents

TO THE READER I. MEMORY, YOU SAVAGE TRIUMPH Andrei A Blueprint for Memory Return through a Gap in Time Propaganda of the Self From All Points East Antonio Laughing in the Ruins (Pt. 1) Andrei Echoes of a Remembered Sentiment Truth and Tangents (or What Becomes Art) Lipscani Antonio Laughing in the Ruins (Pt. 2) II. THE ART OF EXILE Andrei Yes, I Am. Maybe. Some Call It a Performance Of Marionettes The Faces We Wear Antonio A Hole in the Sky (Pt. 1) Andrei Because We Are Meant to Be Forgotten Zero-Sum Not-Light Antonio A Hole in the Sky (Pt. 2) III. HISTORY, OPEN FOR BUSINESS Andrei Communism, the After-Christmas Sale One Kiss, for the Revolution Open for Business Imperial Song Antonio The Last Mirage (Pt. 1) Andrei Bad Habits of Old Women First Sign of Promise Vicious Cycle Antonio The Last Mirage (Pt. 2) IV. AN AUTOPSY OF BELIEF Andrei Pray Daily: Use Words If You Must When the Oil Burns Low The City of Logical Conclusions A Rough Angelology Antonio Duino Elegies (Pt. 1) Andrei Between Gods The Candle Is Out; No Matches Arrival of the Invitation; Inconclusive Directions Antonio Duino Elegies (Pt. 2) V. THE CUNNING OF REASON Andrei Peddling Myth On a Day between Seasons Waiting Our Turn Legends and Other Ordinary Things Antonio Bread and Circuses (Pt. 1) Andrei Parallel Vista Exit Strategy The Future Is Best Eaten with a Wooden Spoon Antonio Bread and Circuses (Pt. 2) VI. ETERNAL RECURRENCES Andrei A Blueprint for Memory (Redux) Insert Inspirational Slogan Here Talking Old Country Blues It Could Have Been a Dream Antonio Nietzsche in Turin (Pt. 1) Andrei Always the Small Things On the Outside Looking In How It Was and How It Should Be (When Death Happens at a Distance) Antonio Nietzsche in Turin (Pt. 2) VII. AFTER BABEL Andrei Nonwords Instructions for Learning a New Language Anatomy of Dreams Encoded Antonio Dreams of a Common Language (Pt. 1) Andrei Palimpsest Under Our Fingernails Wordless Antonio Dreams of a Common Language (Pt. 2) VIII. WHAT'S SO REAL ABOUT SURREALISM? Andrei Funny When You Think about It Even Though Everyone Knows Better Without a Hero It Ends Differently Antonio The Disquieting Muses (Pt. 1) Andrei Frat, ii Mei (My Brothers) Arrangement for Stills A Common Thing Antonio The Disquieting Muses (Pt. 2) IX. CHILDHOOD AND ITS DERIVATIVES Andrei The Eternal Children One Continuous What You Leave Behind The Other Side Of Antonio Giovinezza (Pt. 1) Andrei Psalm for the Children of the Rain The Plot Against Vignette Antonio Giovinezza (Pt. 2) X. HERE AND NOW Andrei Make Beautiful, Again Building Blocks When Turning Toward Make Beautiful Antonio Apollo Atones (Pt. 1) Andrei Approaching Stalemate The Exact Reasons Otherwise a Life Antonio Apollo Atones (Pt. 2) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS

About the Author

Andrei Guruianu teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His previous books include the poetry collections Made in the Image of Stones and Portrait without a Mouth. Anthony Di Renzo is Associate Professor of Writing at Ithaca College and the author of many books, including Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen, also published by SUNY Press.

Reviews

"Dead Reckoning pilots readers through the purgatory of immigration, a painful sea voyage that with enough courage and hard work can lead through the narrow channel facing paradise: spiritual and material success. Charting the currents between the Old and New Worlds, Andrei Guruianu and Anthony Di Renzo write with the ferocious genius of Pope and Swift and the compassionate heart of Saint Nicholas, patron of sailors and guardian of ports." - Emanuel di Pasquale, author of The Ocean's Will "In the space of the passage from immigrant to citizen in a new home, things fall apart to an apparent nothingness. Guruianu and Di Renzo ask us to consider a brave creativity as an answer for the space where systems fall apart, so that it can be a place where things grow in a reverence for the need to live, to love, to have community, and to be truly free." - Afaa M. Weaver, author of City of Eternal Spring "A lovely, seductive, original book." - Thomas G. Pavel, author of The Lives of the Novel: A History