Strange Attraction: The Best of Ten Years of Zyzzyva Book

	Introduction
	Pagan Night	3
	Container	15
	The Lover of Horses	18
	Hidden in the Open	30
	Descent to the Butch of the Realm	35
	1975	42
	Tahoe in August	43
	Mighty Forms	45
	Justice Without Passion	47
	Jigoku: On the Glamour of Self-Hate	48
	Gin	54
	Sesame	57
	from Deck	70
	At Tower Peak	75
	Black Dress	77
	Mestizo	91
	The Inauguration	93
	the ballad of dave and eddie	95
	A Portrait of the Self as Nation, 1990-1991	104
	Traditional Postmodern Neo-HooDoo Afra-Centric Sister in a Purple Head Rag Mourning Death and Cooking	110
	Looking for Elizabeth	114
	Getting Happy	115
	The Biopsy	117
	Land's End	120
	After Twelve Days of Rain	122
	Prince PoPo, Prince JiJi	125
	from Why We Have A Body	128
	from Pick Up Ax	136
	from The Mission	145
	from Yankee Dawg You Die	151
	from Santos & Santos	156
	Carla's Story	165
	The Napa Diary	186
	Maloko Puuwai E Laka	199
	from The Native American Broadcasting Storm	212
	Ooh, Baby, Baby	218
	Tracking the Family Beast	234
	Primitive Man	243
	Tackling English	251
	Geography One	262
	Pity	274
	One Way	287
	The Strange Attraction	304
	The Answer	318
	Acts of Kindness	320
	About the Contributors	329