Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Robert Archambeau	p. 1
Two Short Films	p. 3
Wordsworth at the Cuyahoga's Mouth, 1796-1996	p. 4
Marinneti at Union Station, Chicago	p. 6
Victory Over the Sun	p. 8
The People's Republic of Sleepless Nights	p. 10
Poem for a War Poet, Poem for a War	p. 11
The Ships of Jan Vermeer	p. 13
The Opera, Stopped	p. 15
Misremembering Szymborska	p. 17
Nightmare, Dream and Bourgeoisie: A Prospect	p. 19
This Ample Earth	p. 21
Blackberry	p. 23
The Write Rose: Haiku	p. 24
Five of the Sun	p. 25
A Birthday Evening	p. 26
The Colossus	p. 27
Home and Variations	p. 28
Annie Oakley Misses the Kaiser	p. 30
The Frozen Thames	p. 32
Mike Barrett	p. 39
Acts	p. 41
Pastoral	p. 42
F's dream	p. 45
Epistolary excerpts from a woman O knows	p. 46
Four verbs for T	p. 49
Rikki and Milton	p. 52
On the Miltonic Ideal as Understood by Irony	p. 58
Three Adages in Repose	p. 59
The Longinus Scales	p. 60
Pseudo Longinus	p. 61
Gaius/Dionysius/Cassius Longinus	p. 62
St. Longinus	p. 64
Joe Francis Doerr	p. 67
Corrigenda	p. 69
Futhark 2K	p. 91
Beth Ann Fennelly	p. 111
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding	p. 113
Yield	p. 114
Letter From Gauguin's Daughter	p. 116
The Snake Charmer	p. 118
Good Work if You Can Get It	p. 120
Madame L. Describes the Siege of Paris	p. 124
Sestina For Your Return Flight To The Czech Republic	p. 129
Why I Can't Cook for Your Self-Centered Architect Cousin	p. 131
The Impossibility of Language	p. 133
Jere Odell	p. 139
The Bede	p. 141
From Strunk and White, Rule #3	p. 143
From Strunk and White, Rule #4	p. 145
From Strunk and White, Rule #5	p. 146
Poem Naming My Sons, Ezra and Jona	p. 147
Love Poem	p. 149
Come Over	p. 151
Potato Beetle	p. 152
Wasp	p. 153
Silverfish	p. 154
Fruit Fly	p. 155
Simplicity	p. 156
From The Leeghwater Dreams	p. 157
Hagiograph I	p. 157
Leeghwater Dreams the Monster	p. 158
Leeghwater Dreams an Archer	p. 159
Leeghwater Dreams "Who?"	p. 160
Leeghwater Dreams of Pyrrah	p. 162
Leeghwater Dreams the Meermin	p. 163
Mike Smith	p. 165
Local Woman's Death Undiscovered for Two Months	p. 167
Lessons in Gravity	p. 169
Anagrammatic Ode to Emily Dickinson	p. 171
Uriah, for Example	p. 173
Postcard: The Skelligs	p. 175
Last Poem on Earth: 2 Parts of a Letter	p. 177
Small Industry	p. 180
Kymberly Taylor	p. 189
Caution, My Beautiful Known	p. 191
Extravagant Captivities	p. 192
Sonnet for Lauren	p. 193
Towards Winter	p. 194
Groove	p. 195
Searching for the Right Dress	p. 197
Self Knowledge	p. 198
Light Breathing	p. 199
Reading the Birds	p. 201
The Cow-Nosed Rays	p. 202
What I Most Love	p. 204
A Narrowing of the Universal	p. 206
Into Song	p. 209
Song's Sequence	p. 210
Conjuring a Language	p. 211
Abyss of the Birds	p. 213
Crab Once Blue	p. 215
Notes	p. 216
Contributors' Notes	p. 217
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