Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is a poet and performance artist living in New York. She teaches master classes in solo performance for the Acting Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She is the author of a book of poetry, Schistsong.

Prologue: The Blue Suitcase

Part One: Bronx Tomboy

Eat with Guys You Trust
Breakfast Is to Coat the Stomach
The X
Stoop
The Return of the Rust
A Good Eater
The Tin Ceiling
Sidewalk
Licking Batteries
Teaspoons and Heatpipes
Kitchen Bird
Kindergarten, Boot Camp: 1968
Sister Rosaria
Quicksand
Lasagna Vows
Ravioli, Homing Pigeons, and Teletype Machines
Grandpop, the Hook, and the Eyebrow
Made of Rubber
Sister Giuseppina
Sister Ercolina
Playing War
Lead Pipe, Montezuma, Icicle
Hand to Hand
The Return of the Lasagna
Street
How to Catch a Flyball in Oncoming Traffic
The Names of Horses
Rook to Queen Four
Burning Rubber and Penmanship
Trestles and Love
Silence, Violence
The Blue Angel
Bronx County Family Courthouse
Parkchester Poseidon Adventure
The Lady in Black
Fast Break

Part Two: Educationa Girl

The Temporary Apartment
Permanent Wave
Useless Expertise
Hunger Beat Agida
Sistermazione
Walk Softly but Carry a Big Pockabook
Lunch Is to Clean the Blood
Slow, Loud, and Clear
Asthma, Green Money, and the Feast
Brakeman
Outfield Greens
My Mother, the Plaintoff
Aunt Patty's Bullfight
You're Just Like Your Father
Junkie Pride
Mary Perry
College Entrance
Strike One
Fontanelle Aurelius
The Miracle Worker of 233rd Street

Part Three: Kimosabe

The Best Place to Have Cancer
Room 621
Shake 'n Bake
The Fastigium
Dope and Demerol
The Pipeline
Truckstop Paranoia
Chemistry
Amara
Brazil Upside Down
Belly Up
Overheating
Triple Boiling Point
Eat 'Til You Sweat
The Tumor Board
The Radioactive Man Says, "Don't Give Up the Ship!"
Thoracotomy
One Mis-sip-pi
Magnetic Lace
Lesbianism, Suicide, or the Nunnery
How to Wake Up a Marine in a Foxhole
Red Death
Interventions
Falling and Flying
Civilian Life Sucks
Deep Bell

Part Four: How to Cook a Heart

Wallid Walla Bint
Equator Crossings
Bronx Italian Butch Freedom
Never Come Out in a Lincoln Continental
A Nightclub Named Devotion "Roma o Morte!"
Vrrooooom!
"Cosa Mangia Oggi!"
My Mother's Aorta
a'Schapett
Shave My Head
Enter Audrey Lauren Kindred
Rachele's Pocketbook Fritatta
How to Poke a Guy's Eyes Out
How to Cook a Heart

Part Five: Annie's Parts

Mr. Fixit
Six Places to Buy Milk
My Father, Marconi, and Me
Sciamannin'
Horizontal People
Radioactive Feast
Limoncello and the Black Bra
Garlic, the Ave Maria, and the Blue Leg
Cittadinanza
Assassination Focaccia
Spearmint Gum Cure
One Day My Horse Will Come In
Madeleine and the Magic Biscotti
How GrammaRose Became a Peach Tree
Fruttificare
The Lasagna Stands Alone
Three Days from Eternity
Don't Make 'Em Burn
Pipe Dreams
The Little Fish and the Big Ocean
Three Hundred Cream Puffs and the Illusion Veil
Lingua Madre
Sì o No?
A Couple of Teaspoons of Coffee and a Couple of Drops of Milk
Becoming GrammaRose Peach Tree

Glossary
Acknowledgments: Exquisite Pleasure
Credits
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