Introduction | |
The Beginning | |
"Dysfunctional Narratives, or: 'Mistakes Were Made'" | p. 3 |
"Dancing with a Dying Man" | p. 19 |
"The Millennial Warp" | p. 33 |
"The Converted" | p. 53 |
"If Only for a Little While" | |
"The Misunderstanding of Nature" | |
"And He Was 27 Years Old ..." | p. 56 |
Excerpt | p. 65 |
"Prologue" | p. 75 |
"Instructions to the Double" | p. 91 |
"Under Stars" | |
"Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn" | |
"Willingly" | |
"Now that I Am Never Alone" | |
"Fresh Stain" | |
"I Stop Writing the Poem" | |
"Can Poetry Matter?" | p. 100 |
"The Border Is ... (A Manifesto)" | p. 122 |
"Glistening" | p. 125 |
"The Color of Many Deer Running" | |
"The Conditions" | |
"Chosen by the Lion" | |
"Asking for Directions" | |
"Fishing in the Keep of Silence" | |
"The Wind Blowing through a Tree" | |
"Night Driving in the Desert" | p. 132 |
"Station" | |
"Pause" | |
"Firefly" | |
"Fenceposts" | |
"Cutover" | p. 139 |
"The House of the Injured" | p. 152 |
"Listening in October" | |
"The Stone Harp" | |
"The Snowbound City" | |
"Cicada" | |
"The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer" | |
"Night" | |
"Prologue: Larceny" | p. 160 |
"Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet" | p. 172 |
"Brave World" | |
"Hearings" | |
"Are You Experienced?" | |
"Basic Science" | p. 179 |
"My Broken Heart" | |
"Starlet" | |
"Everything's a Fake" | |
"Eureka in Toledo, Weather Permitting" | p. 183 |
"Reading Aloud to My Father" | p. 190 |
"Evening Sun" | |
"Thinking of Madame Bovary" | |
"Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks" | |
"Let Evening Come" | |
"Peonies at Dusk" | |
"Otherwise" | |
"Notes from the Other Side" | |
"Owning It All" (excerpt) | p. 197 |
"Sheepskin" | p. 205 |
"Teaching Ovid to Sixth-Graders" | p. 220 |
"Freeze" | |
"Alba: Failure" | |
"From the Devotions" | |
"Welcome, Fear" | p. 227 |
"What Kind of Times?" | |
"Curious Forces" | |
"Change My Evil Ways" | |
Excerpt | p. 233 |
"Ohaka-Mairi" | p. 241 |
"Made in the Tropics" | p. 245 |
"This Fast-Paced, Brutal Thriller" | |
"A Werewolf in Brooklyn" | |
"from An Oral History of Migration" | |
"The Way It Is" | p. 250 |
"You Reading This, Be Ready" | |
"Ask Me" | |
"At the Bomb Testing Site" | |
"Bi-Focal" | |
"A Ritual to Read to Each Other" | |
"Traveling through the Dark" | |
"Smoke" | |
"From the Bunker to the Atrad" | p. 256 |
"Enroute to Bahia" (excerpt) | p. 275 |
"Wisconsin" | p. 283 |
Excerpt | p. 295 |
"A Gravestone Made of Wheat" | p. 305 |
"Andrew Willingham Odom" (excerpt) | p. 321 |
Excerpt | p. 326 |
Graywolf Press Publications | p. 335 |
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