Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Author’s Note xiii
5. Configurations 1
6. Broken Thumb 3
7. Balance Forward 4
8. Gathering 6
9. Connecticut Light 8
10. In Range of Bells 9
11. A Visit 10
12. Interlude 11
13. Dirge for the Living 12
14. Dirge for the Living 14
15. Houses 15
16. Continuations 16
17. Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1912 17
18. Floating 18
19. Floating 20
20. Mischa Levitzki, Valse in A Major 21
21. On Powderhorn Island 22
22. Not Later, Not Less 24
23. A Medieval Carol 25
24. Solitude 26
25. To Katharine Lately Born 28
26. Walking: A Psalm 30
27. Mother, With Daughter 32
28. Partly Cloudy 34
29. Land and Sea 36
30. A Star Turn 37
31. Two Trees 38
32. Understanding Poetry 39
33. In Memoriam J. B. G. 40
34. The Waves 42
35. Autobiography 43
36. At Seventy, The Tools 44
37. A Day 46
38. Maine Brevities 48
39. With Closed Eyes 49
40. Origination 50
41. Triptych 52
42. Early Poems
43. Sight 59
44. Ars Poetica 60
45. The Allegro Goes Out 61
46. Driving in Pioneer Valley 62
47. The Ebb 64
48. The Dwellings 66
49. Next Moment 67
50. Belated Tribute 68
51. Song 70
52. Countersong 71
53. The Wisdom of Love 72
54. The Donors 73
55. In Another Country 74
56. In Memoriam A. M. S. 75
57. Reflections in Transit 76
58. Patient in Waiting 78
59. The Strangers 79
60. A February Scene 80
61. The Watchers 82