Preface | p. ix |
Only Mystery | p. 1 |
Invoking the Duende | p. 3 |
Poetic Fact | p. 5 |
A Mysterious Power | p. 8 |
The Hidden Spirit of Disconsolate Spain | p. 13 |
An Apprenticeship | p. 19 |
Between Eros and Thanatos | p. 29 |
The Majesty of the Incomprehensible | p. 35 |
A Spectacular Meteor | p. 39 |
Swooping In | p. 45 |
Ardent Struggle, Endless Vigil | p. 49 |
The Black Paintings | p. 55 |
The Intermediary | p. 58 |
Yeats's Daimon | p. 65 |
Ars Poetica? | p. 72 |
A Passionate Ingredient | p. 76 |
The Yearning Cry of a Shade | p. 80 |
I Sing You, Wild Chasm | p. 85 |
Night Work | p. 91 |
Vegetable Life, Airy Spirit | p. 96 |
A Person Must Control His Thoughts in a Dream | p. 101 |
The Angelic World | p. 109 |
The Story of Jacob's Wrestling with an Angel | p. 118 |
Concerning the Angels | p. 126 |
The Rilkean Angel | p. 132 |
Angel, Still Groping | p. 141 |
The New Angel | p. 147 |
Three American Angels | p. 152 |
Demon or Bird! | p. 157 |
Between Two Contending Forces | p. 162 |
The Sublime Is Now | p. 166 |
In the Painting | p. 171 |
Paint It Black | p. 178 |
Motherwell's Black | p. 184 |
Deaths and Entrances | p. 191 |
Ancient Music and Fresh Forms | p. 196 |
America Heard in Rhythm | p. 202 |
Hey, I'm American, So I Played It | p. 207 |
Fending Off the Duende | p. 213 |
The Existentialist Flatfoot Floogie | p. 220 |
Poet in New York | p. 222 |
Where Is the Angel? Where Is the Duende? | p. 229 |
Notes | p. 231 |
Reading List: The Pleasure of the Text | p. 279 |
Acknowledgments | p. 303 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 304 |
Index | p. 309 |
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