1. Grandmother. Black dog of fate -- The woman in blue -- Freedom, New Jersey. 2. Mother. An Armenian Jew in suburbia -- Tahn on Crabtree Lane -- Threads of silk. 3. Father. Saturday autumn -- Isatanbul was Constantinople -- The other side of the bridge -- A creature of rock 'n roll. 4. Chain of words. Benzene rinsings from the moon -- The Sioux chief -- "Kaddish" -- A princess in Byzantium -- Owls flying in the dark -- Words for my grandmother. 5. Bloody news. Before the Nazis -- The murder of a nation -- Fall from the clouds -- A thousand shoes -- A document and a photograph -- Dovey's story -- The cemetery of our ancestors -- Reading a skeleton. 6. Commemoration. Times Square -- The open wound -- The fact of a house.
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