""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 The Language of Love: An Oblique Beginning""; ""2 Love and Other Unofficial Stories: Narrative Prowling in Kristjana Gunnars' The Prowler""; ""3 Possessed by Love: The Metaphoric Production of Desire in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept""; ""4 In Between: Dionne Brand's Poetics of Love and Resistance""; ""5 Love Letters from an Unmade Bed: Dorothy Livesay's Poetics of Disquiet""
""6 On the Line: Revenge as Confessional Strategy in Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of Longing and Nicole Markotic's ""No Goodbye, Just:""""""7 Bone Memory: Love and Breath in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow""; ""8 Speaking in Tongues: Daphne Marlatt's Answering Touch or How To Sign a Love Letter""; ""9 Postscript""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""