two parts, a short narrative of running away and losing everything and getting lost forever titled Kidnapper, followed by a short note on the debate of Tolstoy v. Dostoevsky "If I wish to change the world, I will read Tolstoy. But when the world still gives away after every change, I will read Dostoevsky."
notes separated by xxx, talk of slaughter and genocide as remembered moments before getting in a car crash in Montana and worrying whether his loved ones will know what has gone through his brain
work from the same fiction class, he writes the first paragraph in three different forms, first without instructed, then instructed to make it a detective novel, then instructed to create a romance
at first a poem about imminent death, then a statement declaring that one should "write in free verse to subvert western civilization and write in formal verse to save oneself from western civilization," then a poem describing the images of temples and mosques as they are reflected in a lake
interspersing of a poem of Emily Dickinson's entitled "With Flowers" and Shahid's own personal lines that talk of bridging the gap between Amherst and Kashmir, xxx denotes distinctions between Dickinson's poetry and his own related poetry
