Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Contents xiii
4. In Dispraise of Poetry 1
5. Perspective He Would Mutter Going to Bed 2
6. Elephants 3
7. And She Waiting 4
8. It May Be No One Should Be Opened 5
9. House on the California Mountain 7
10. Myself Considered as the Monster in the Foreground 8
11. In Perugino We Have Sometimes Seen Our Country 10
12. A Poem for the Fin de Monde Man 11
13. Rain 13
14. County Musician 14
15. Malvolio in San Francisco 15
16. Orpheus in Greenwich Village 17
17. Don Giovanni on His Way to Hell 18
18. Don Giovanni on His Way to Hell (II) 19
19. Before Morning in Perugia 20
20. Midnight Is Made of Bricks 21
21. The Night Comes Every Day to My Window 23
22. Meelee's Away 24
23. The Abnormal Is Not Courage 25
24. Lions 26
25. Susanna and the Elders 27
26. The Four Perfectly Tangerines 28
27. The First Morning of the World on Long Island 30
28. I'll Try to Explain About the Fear 31
29. Poem for Laura 33
30. Portrait Number Five: Against a New York Summer 34
31. The Bay Bridge from Portrero Hill 35
32. On Growing Old in San Francisco 37
33. Without Watteau, Without Burckhardt, Oklahoma 38
34. Letter to Mr. John Keats 39
35. Portolano 40
36. It Is Clear Why the Angels Come No More 41
37. The Whiteness, the Sound, and Alcibiades 42