Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FOREWORD ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
5. I
6. Atlas 3
7. Pulse 5
8. Proposal 20
9. II
10. Immigrant Song 25
11. Mother Hair 26
12. The Tea and Sage Poem 28
13. The Way Back 30
14. Sleeping Trees 32
15. Resistance 34
16. An Idea of Return 35
17. Love Poem 37
18. Travel Document 39
19. III
20. Landscape 43
21. Scarecrow 45
22. Anonymous Song 46
23. The Name of the Place 48
24. Surviving Caterpillars 49
25. Morning Ritual 50
26. Moon Grass Rain 52
27. Along Came a Spider 57
28. An American Spandrel 63
29. The Onion Poem 65
30. Ascension 66
31. Night Travel 67
32. Condolence 68
33. Image 69
34. Bird Banner 70
35. American Gas Station 71
36. At a Café 73
37. Home 74
38. Additional Notes on Tea 75
39. NOTES 77